The Vice President of the Generalitat, Mónica Oltra, has requested the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community to file the proceedings against her in the case in which thirteen charges and officials of the Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies are already being investigated, which She also directs, for the alleged cover-up of the abuses of her ex-husband, a minor under guardianship.
It insists that there are no “indications of criminality” nor “the existence of any fact that justifies that actions were carried out to cover up the facts denounced by the minor and to her detriment” between 2016 and 2017. In fact, it maintains that The premise on which the investigating judge starts – the opening of an investigation parallel to the judicial one to discredit the minor – is neither true nor accredited: «They are mere speculations».
In this sense, it points to an “excess of value” in the rulings of the Valencia Court and the subsequent ratification of the TSJ that sentenced Luis Ramírez Icardi to five years in prison – pending the appeal in the Supreme Court – and that questioned the protection that the Generalitat had offered the 14-year-old victim from her aggressor, an educator from the residence where she lived.
Oltra is listed in the case as “interested” since the head of the Investigating Court number 15 of Valencia requested her imputation to the TSJ for being appraised. This Friday the Prosecutor’s Office joined that request, alluding to the existence of “relevant evidence” against the leader of Compromís that now her lawyers reject in an extensive resource -of more than thirty pages- to which ABC has had access.
«No official of the Generalitat, nor workers of collaborating entities received an order, suggestion, indication or instruction, directly or indirectly, from Ms. Mónica Oltra to act in one way or another and specifically to open an information file or to hide data from the investigation or harm the minor in any way, ”says the letter in reference to the controversial exculpatory report prepared by Equality when the case was already in the hands of the courts and a restraining order had been decreed.
It was that, precisely, the moment in which he defends that the autonomous vice president knew the facts. Specifically, on August 4, 2017, when a judicial notice arrived at her house. Despite the fact that they assure that she collaborated with the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office throughout the summer and that document was sent on December 1, it was misplaced and was not included in the trial against Icardi and motivated the partial repetition of the oral hearing with the same result. .
The girl recounted the abuses in February of that year, but those responsible for the Niño Jesús center in Valencia did not believe her, until in June, by chance, she told what happened to two National Police officers, who informed the Public Ministry .
Instructor Vicente Ríos pointed to Oltra as the person responsible for opening that reserved file. In fact, she herself corroborated it in a statement that was requested by the magistrate. The councilor maintained at first that it was she who ordered that report to be made to find out about the failures of the system, the state of the young woman, “to know what actions had been carried out, why the alleged victim had not been referred to Espill -the institute in charge of these cases-, why hadn’t he been given the necessary psychological treatment…».
However, later he retracted and aligned himself with the version offered before the same judge by the director of Childhood and Adolescence, Rosa Molero, and the deputy director Gemma Plaza. It was they who gave an order on August 8, asserts the resource, which does not imply “the commission of any criminal offense”, since its opening has “justification and its own functionality for the purposes that define the functioning of the administration.”
The spokeswoman for the Government of Ximo Puig made at first, their lawyers justify, “some statements clearly conditioned by the feeling of injustice and impotence that I felt when thinking that this accusation was nothing more than the criminal instrumentalization that was entailing putting into question judged the professionalism of all the officials of the Department who had been involved, as well as of the different professionals involved.
In addition, they point to the thesis of the “hunt of the extreme right” that Oltra has been repeating in recent months, when referring to the possible opening of a procedure -waiting for what the three magistrates of the Chamber of the Civil and Criminal matters of the high court – with a “marked prospective aspect and with a notoriously spurious purpose”, since it intends to “extract political revenue”.
In this regard, the cause has its origin in a complaint by the victim -represented by the lawyer José Luis Roberto, leader of Spain 2000- and a parallel complaint by the Gobierna-te association, chaired by the co-founder of Vox Cristina Seguí. The formation of Santiago Abascal also exercises popular accusation.
