Justice, between cognitive deteriorations and selective amnesias

Today the analysis could last as long as a news broadcast. Let's begin: today marks one year since the great blackout. April 28th. It was a day like today, more or less. We were heading into summer. Sunshine and mild temperatures. Lucky for us. And it started when the kids were at school and people were at work. And it ended at night. The responsibility for the blackout has been diluted in a chain of problems that occurred in a cascade, and nothing has happened here.Jordi Pujol has already slept at his home tonight, in Barcelona, where he arrived yesterday evening quite tired, with the frustration of not having been able to declare and of knowing that he has not been able to receive an acquittal of which he was convinced.Don't miss this chronicle by our delegate in Madrid, Núria Orriols, full of details about the two hours the former president spent at the National Court. They asked him which years he was president and he got it right, from 1980 to 2003. But when they asked him if he knew what he was being accused of, he started to ramble.But, above all, don't miss the in-depth reflection by Jordi Nieva-Fenoll, professor of procedural law at the University of Barcelona:

That it is not essential for the judge to have the interrogated persons physically in front of him, and that, therefore, he could have testified telematically. But, above all, "why do processes take so long to be held? This one began in 2014, and its first phase –the investigation– ended in July 2020, and since then we have been waiting for the trial now. The answer is the collapse of cases that a court suffers, which for a long time, as the heir of the Transition of the Public Order Court, should have disappeared: the National High Court. It would be worth asking if this inevitable delay in processes – the court is, after all, small – along with the political relevance of many of them, means that there are no legislative plans for its essential abolition". A professor says so. Twelve years have passed, and in this very long investigation, and until it was declared concluded and the trial was scheduled, nothing new has emerged.

Also in the courts,

Sáenz de Santamaría also remembers nothing about the Kitchen. 'Also' means the same as Rajoy or Cospedal: "I am not aware", "I do not remember", "I have no record of it", "I was not Minister of the Interior". No, she was vice-president of the government, minister of the Presidency (and, therefore, responsible for espionage), and she ran for party leader. And she knew nothing about it? Nobody believes that. Of course, these are events from thirteen years ago, she cannot remember. Between one who can no longer remember and the other who remembers nothing, this week justice has appeared to be subordinate to political power.

Meanwhile, doctors went on strike again and teachers do not want police in schools. Justice is slow and people's problems move very fast.

Good morning.