the judge who called Sánchez a “psychopath” and presents himself as an imperturbable idealist

2023-11-26 22:05:53

Several dozen judges and prosecutors have accounts on Twitter and other social networks. Some with first and last names and others anonymously give advice to opponents, comment on Supreme Court rulings or criticize the political situation and the legal reforms that are being approved. One of them was, until a few days ago, Manuel Ruiz de Lara. This commercial magistrate from Madrid has deleted his account after the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has opened a file to see if he has incurred any type of offense for calling the President of the Government a “psychopath without ethical limits” or “personification of dishonor” to the state attorney general.

Manuel Ruiz de Lara passed, among other destinations, through the commercial courts of Cádiz or Barcelona before arriving on the Gran Vía in Madrid, where his name appeared on the covers of all the sports newspapers. The Super League lawsuit, a project for a new European competition promoted by some of the richest soccer teams in the continental leagues, fell in his court. And his first decision did not go unnoticed: he categorically prohibited FIFA and UEFA from taking any step, not even the slightest communication, to restrict the project that, among other teams, Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid and Barça wanted to launch with Florentino Pérez in front.