This Thursday the complete sentence annulling the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos was known. The Supreme Court says that it is not admissible for the government to interfere in the judicial investigation of the manifestation of 8m of the year 2020. The order that Marlaska gave to the former head of the Civil Guard Command was, according to the Supreme Court, “contrary to the function of the Judicial Police”. Various Associations of the Civil Guard they have lost confidence in Marlaska since they think that it is a scandal that the Supreme Court has annulled the dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos and they believe that the Minister should reinstate him.
He supreme court (TS) has censured that the reason given by the Government for the dismissal of Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the Madrid Civil Guard Command is “confused“and” contrary to the function of the Judicial Police” because the judge in the 8M case gave “the express order” of “absolute confidentiality”. the appeal of Pérez de los Cobos against the sentence of the National Court that confirmed his dismissal, agreed by the Ministry of the Interior in May 2020.
Now, professional associations of the Civil Guard request the resignation of the Minister of the InteriorFernando Grande-Marlaska, after the decision of the Supreme Court.
For his part, Grande-Marlaska has said that “it is not his intention in any way to resign”at the same time that he has indicated that at present the loss of confidence of the Interior team that he leads in Colonel Pérez de los Cobos persists, for which reason the lack of suitability also prevails.
The AUGC, the professional association of the Civil Guard, maintains that Grande-Marlaska must resign: “He does not have the confidence of the civil guards, so we reaffirm our claim, the minister must resign“.