Judge Baltasar Garzón will have to confront the penal process of prevarication in the Spanish Supreme Court. The Tribunal’s second court-room has decided to begin prosecution based on a complaint in which the famous “star judge” is accused of an obvious crime of prevarication “premeditated, conscious and believing to be not blameworthy for them”, because of his actions as a judge in the process he initiated about the disappearance of people during the Spanish civil war and General Franco’s political regime. The surprising decision of the Penal Room of the Supreme Court had been taken by its president, Juan Saavedra and the magistrates Adolph Prego, Joaquin Giménez, Francisco Monterde and Juan Ramon Berdugo. The resolution was unanimous. Subject of multiple accusations, Garzón so far has been cleared of them all and regarding this latest, filed the past 26th January by the so called Clean Hands Union, there was initially a favourable report in Garzon’s favour from the office of the Supreme Court public prosecutor that, as it has been habitual, exonerated Garzon.
