Joaquín Aguirre

The Civil Guard arrests businessmen David Madí, Xavier Vendrell, Oriol Soler, the head of Carles Puigdemont’s Office, Josep Alay, the president of the Plataforma Pro-Seleccions Esportives Catalanes and 16 other people for funding the independence movement

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 assembly

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opposed up to three times to tapping the phones and installing geolocators in the cars of David Madí, Xavier Vendrell and Xavier Vinyals

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 assembly

The Prosecutor’s Office defends the legality of the surveillance carried out within the framework of the Volhov operation despite having opposed it during the investigation

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 assembly