Lawsuit against the police

Aznar's “let him who can do it do it” has been taken so much to heart by the Spanish nationalist right that a real competition is underway among guardians of the fatherland's essences to see who can strike the hardest, and if possible, definitive blow, against the communist dictatorship of Pedro Sánchez, an accomplice of Basque terrorists and Catalan coup plotters. Judge Peinado, in particular, seems to feel called to the high mission of delivering a mortal blow to perfidious sanchismo before his own retirement arrives (in September). As is public and notorious, the way he has found to do so is a classic of fascism and mafias: attacking the relatives and closest people to the enemy, defaming them, humiliating them. Mission accomplished: Judge Peinado's investigation against Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez, is as extravagant, irresponsible, and unacceptable as one wishes, but she will no longer be able to avoid, for as many years as she lives, that when her name is mentioned someone will associate her (want to associate her) with corruption.With so much zeal they put into it, they not only commit a coup d'état, not as soft as it is sometimes called, which is perpetrated from the very institutions of the State, but they also manage to trample on each other, and this is more unusual and more ironic. Peinado, specifically, has managed to anger the police unions, for having withdrawn Begoña Gómez's passport with the suspicion that the escorts could help her flee. The National Police, accomplices of Sanchismo! Where will we end up. Both the National Police and the Civil Guard have worked overtime to save Spain from any fumanxú that could endanger its sacred unity, only to now be pointed out as possible accomplices in an eventual escape by Begoña Gómez, one of the protagonists of the most squalid misogynistic memes circulating in patriotic WhatsApp groups. The main police unions, Jupol and SUP, are beside themselves and Minister Marlaska has summoned them. That is to say, he asked the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to act, and the CGPJ has reprimanded Peinado, even if with a pronounced internal division. That's fine, but it would have been better if they had clarified whether Peinado is guilty of malfeasance, as stated by former Supreme Court magistrate Martín Pallín. Or even better, whether the judicialization of politics is not a serious problem for the rule of law. The arachnid sense, however, warns us that corporatism will prevail and that these debates about the magistracy will not take place, at least not publicly. A prominent member of the judicial leadership summarized it quite well: let us be left alone.The Spanish right has become so inflamed that, in order to save Spain, it doesn't mind destroying it. “Nothing happens. When we return to power, which they usurped from us, we will fix the mess,” they tell themselves. The problem is that the rule of law does not break and repair at will. Meanwhile, amnesty – another scandal of a judiciary that refuses to apply current law – looms on the horizon of the end of the legislature.