2023-07-17 14:08:57
The former judge Balthazar Garzon –separated from the judicial career for illegally instructing the famous Gürtel case– received this Saturday the medal to “commemorate the 50th anniversary” of the coup in Chile from the President of the Republic of Chile, the communist Gabriel Boricat the event Chile: Memory and Future 50 years after the Military Coup, held at the Casa de América in Madrid.
During the ceremony, Boric presented this recognition “for his commitment and defense of human rights” to Baltasar Garzón, who led the cause that managed to arrest the dictator Augusto Pinochet, a detention that kept Pinochet in the United Kingdom for months. although in the end it did not have any legal relevance since the British justice system considered that he could not be tried.
The president presented the award thanking the Spaniard for his role in the arrest of Pinochet from London in 1998and he assured that by issuing the international order “he only complied” with his “obligation as a public official.”
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Present at the event were the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Energy, Alberto van Klaveren and Diego Pardow, as well as the Chilean Ambassador to Spain, Javier Velasco.
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But the most notable presence is probably that of the former President of the Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapaterowhose relations with the most radical left in Latin America are more than well known, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.
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