15 posts
28 October 2020
The arrests are carried out within the framework of investigating proceedings commenced in 2016 by judge Joaquín Aguirre, from Investigating Court number 1 from Barcelona, […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly29 October 2020
The Russian Embassy in Madrid, via Twitter, has mocked the operation led by the judge Aguirre, dubbed ’Operation Volhov’by the Civil Guard, by publishing a […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly2 November 2020
Internal discussions of ERC leaders on political strategy are leaked to El Confidencial. JxCat and ERC denounce that the Volhov Case is a political espionage […]
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Rights to free expression and assembly9 November 2020
Madí argues that the Civil Guard and the judge Joaquín Aguirre authorised the interception of his mobile phone without having ‘a single objective and concrete […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly9 November 2020
The ERC claims that they have no connection with the incidents investigated in the operation and that, therefore, they merely serve the purpose of discrediting […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly11 November 2020
The representatives of PSOE, PP and VOX on the Bureau argue that the Civil Guard acted as judicial police. A few days later, Marlaska states […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly13 November 2020
For a whole year, the Prosecutor’s Office expressed its reluctance on the police surveillance on the grounds that those under investigation were not part of […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly14 December 2020
Despite the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office having objected as many as three times to the phone tapping (for which some of the defendants sought annulment) as […]
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Neutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly28 May 2021
Joaquín Aguirre, the judge investigating the Volhov case, refers the proceedings against Francesc de Dalmases, MP of the Junts per Catalunya party, to the High […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly9 June 2021
Investigating Court num. 1 of Barcelona judge Joaquín Aguirre, that is currently investigating Operation Volhov, declines jurisdiction in favour of Central Investigating Courts num. 6 […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly3 September 2021
The Prosecutor’s Office collides once again with the judge and requests the annulment of the ordinance by which the magistrate orders the Civil Guard to […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly27 June 2022
The judge of the First Examining Magistrate’s Court of Barcelona Joaquín Aguirre, who is investigating the Volhov Case, summons the head of President Puigdemont’s office […]
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Politicisation of justice30 June 2022
The Public Prosecutor had appealed the decision of Joaquín Aguirre, the judge of the First Examining Magistrate’s Court of Barcelona investigating the Volhov Operation, considering […]
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Politicisation of justiceRight to a fair trial28 July 2022
The judge of the First Examining Magistrate’s Court of Barcelona who is investigating the Volhov Case, Joaquín Aguirre, decrees the provisional dismissal and shelving of […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly26 January 2024
Barcelona Investigating Court number 1 Joaquín Aguirre declared the extension arguing that there are pending proceedings and plenty of documents to review and analyse, as […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly