The Pujols' lawyer questions the accusation: "Is this taken to a trial in a democratic state?"

San Fernando de HenaresCristóbal Martell is dedicated to dismantling the prosecution's accusation against Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, who faces 29 years in prison. The lawyer has vehemently begun to highlight the lack of evidence to support the "grandiose assertion" that the family wove a "network of clientelism" to profit from illegal commissions in exchange for public works: "When a prosecution begins with such a loud and ambitious frontispiece, one expects columns that solidly support this thick assertion. Nothing". "Does this satisfy a document from the public prosecutor's office and is it brought to a court in a democratic state?", he asked ironically at one point in his speech. "It does not seem reasonable to bring this to a court of justice in a state of law with guarantees", he added at another point. He believes that both in the "flowery" indictment of the Prosecutor's Office and throughout the five months of trial there has been a "clamorous and unbearable lack of evidence", a "vagueness and imprecision" and, even, certain "bizarre things".

Likewise, he complained about the lack of concrete suspicions: "One expects to know which tenders were corrupted, which awards were bargained for. Nothing. Not a single mention that answers this serious assertion. Nothing". Cristóbal Martell lamented that the trial has been characterized by a "clamorous lack of evidence" and that the case "has poisoned the eyes" with which Jordi Pujol Ferrusola's entire economic life is viewed and has meant a "complete overhaul" of all his businesses.

At all times, the Pujol family has attributed the fortune that the brothers and Marta Ferrusola had in Andorra to the famous inheritance from grandfather Florenci. "Is it extravagant or is it a reasonable alternative that he had funds abroad and, landed by an unstable political situation, wanted to have a cushion for his grandchildren in a context of little understanding of his son's political life?", Cristóbal Martell asked himself. "It is not extravagant, but reasonable", he himself replied.

The day after the ProsecutorHe also spoke about the former president of the Generalitat to make it clear that, despite the fact that finally In relation to the suspicions of corruption, he reproached the prosecutor for having dedicated himself to creating a "climate" of doubt, for example, "repeating like a mantra" that the money movements in Andorra coincided with the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. "You can't smear with broad strokes," he denounced. "As a conjecture or suspicion, things are spoken of whether they have to do with the Pujols or not," he stressed. And he alluded to the few public projects that the Prosecutor's Office has targeted. "There was no Pujol going around," he said in one case. "No trace of the Pujols," he added about another.

"He is neither here nor expected"

He also spoke about the former president of the Generalitat to make it clear that, despite the fact that he has finally been excluded from the case due to his inability to defend himself and that mentions of him have been minimal, nothing has been proven to incriminate him: "I have not seen a single witness during the trial nor any evidentiary effort aimed at demonstrating that he committed an act of bastardy in public office that would enrich the family's assets. He is neither here nor expected."