スペインのガルシア地方沖で沈没した石油輸送船プレステージ(PRESTIGE)号が、2002年にガルシア地方を中心に1'600kmの海岸を石油汚染した石油環境汚染事故の裁判
Los acusados del ‘Prestige’ alegan falta de garantías judiciales
Uno de los abogados amaga con retirarse y pone en peligro la continuidad de la vista
ESPECIAL La catástrofe del 'Prestige'
Sonia Vizoso / Paola Obelleiro A Coruña 16 OCT 2012 - 20:53 CET
Those accused of 'Prestige' claim lack of fair trial
A lawyer threatens to pull out and threatens the continuity of sight
SPECIAL catastrophe 'Prestige'
Sonia Vizoso / Paola Obelleiro Coruna 16 OCT 2012 - 20:53 CET
The slow judicial machinery of the Prestige is like a Cyclops to collapse with every step. The view of accountability for the 2002 oil spill, which polluted the European coast from southern Galicia to France, began Tuesday in A Coruña with obstacles. The defenses of the main accused, Captain Apostolos Mangouras and his right hand in the vessel, the chief engineer Nikolaos Argyropoulos, used the session to cast doubt on the haphazard instruction, due process and the possibility that a settlement of the disaster with a fair trial. The lawyer of Argyropoulos, Paulino Perez Riveiro, foster even threatened suspension of judgment: if the Galician increases not before November 12 of the 455 euros charged fees until the end of the hearing in April will retire from case. And if that were the case, the court should enable other period of at least three months for another lawyer officially plunged into the more than 230,000 pages of the summary to prepare the defense of the accused. "The regional government is not willing to hold a fair trial and intended to violate the rights of defense," Perez Riveiro accused before the hearing room of A Coruña.
Until November 13, the day that will mark the tenth anniversary of the distress call of the Prestige off Finisterre, is not scheduled to begin statements of defendants and witnesses. From this Tuesday until October 25, the court will receive requests for cancellations and proposals for more evidence and testimony, to decide which admits an extremely important for the outcome of the case, because many of the prosecutions in question are crucial to measure the guilt of the three men sitting on the bench: the two crew members of the monocoque and was director of the Merchant Marine, Jose Luis Lopez-Sors, a former minister in charge of Development, Francisco Alvarez-Cascos, who took full responsibility management of the crisis, to the relief of his superiors.
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The prosecutor and the 55 lawyers uncovered well over the morning's strengths on which they plan to play. What became clear is that in the room are grouped into two camps: those who, like the prosecution, believe that all the blame of the disaster were responsible for the old oil and its toxic load, which also resisted obeying orders given by the Spanish authorities to minimize damage, and those like Never Again, also blamed the government of José María Aznar on the severity of the damage of the oil spill for refusing to shelter the tanker in a port and walk him through the Atlantic with his helmet spewing a trail of fuel.
One of the critical reports to clarify the future of the only legal political is sitting on the bench which signed a naval engineer named James Martin Criado. This study establishes that it was the poor condition of the tanker, launched in 1977, which caused the disaster, not the erratic journey imposed by the Government. It based the instructor to exculpate Judge Lopez-Sors at first, a decision that was overturned by the Provincial Court of A Coruña. The lawyer of the platform Never Again, born in Galicia to claim political responsibility for what happened, asked the court to disregard the expert report because its author, Martin Criado, was advisor to the Government of Aznar during the disaster and endorsed the removal ship, the expert intervention also hid the court when commissioned the study.
The request for penalties for defendants
Along the captain, Apostolos Mangouras, are charged the chief engineer, Nikolaos Argyropoulos, and first officer, Irenaeus Maloto-missing and found in contempt-for crimes against natural resources and the environment, damage and disobedience.
So is former Director General of Merchant Marine Sors José Luis López-González, for crimes against the environment and damage, for which the charge of Never Again requested five years in prison. The other defendants face sentences ranging from twelve years in prison, claiming the attorney for the captain and four years in prison, requesting other parties in person.
As direct civilian responsible include the insurer London Steam-Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association Limited and the International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution (IOPC) and as subsidiary carriers Mare Shipping Inc. Universe Maritime Ltd, listed as Ship owners, and the Spanish State.
The outcome that has the judgment to Mangouras depend largely on whether the court addresses two of the requests made by your attorney. José María Ruiz Soroa claimed partial nullity of the proceedings because the Aznar government "concealed" significant data on the state in which the oil was obtained by its technicians in underwater expeditions to the wreck that took place in 2003. "So hidden," the story that did the lawyer in the courtroom, these experts performed measurements on the sheet and internal compartments of the ship that were never sent to the court of Corcubión. That "autopsy" secret could shed light on a fundamental aspect Mangouras to impute to a crime against the environment: whether or not the tanker was in a "deplorable condition" when he undertook his last journey and if its head was the aware of this danger.
So Greek sailor's attorney also requested the annulment of the records that the Spanish authorities carried Mangouras's cabin after he was sent to prison. Among the hundreds of documents seized there is a fax compromising for Mangouras, in which an ex-captain of the ship warned three months before the tragedy of the poor state of its structure. The lawyer alleged that the main accused in the log cabin was made "without a warrant" and found that papers were not sent to the court of Corcubión until almost two months later, which puts in question to enforce his "chain of custody ". Ruiz Soroa court proclaimed doubts about Spain's ability to secure his client a fair trial after Aznar called him "pirate" within two days of the wreck.
United Left loses lawyer
One arm of the charges against the sole control of the government sitting on the bench is out of legal representation. The lawyer for the United Left, the training with Never Again platform enabled the former Director General of Merchant Marine, Jose Luis Lopez Sors, is charged in the case, has not been presented at the hearing that has started this morning. The general coordinator of IU, Cayo Lara, explained that this is a "professional issue" that his party will not prevent the prosecution continue to exercise during the seven months that the trial will last. "Do not withdraw anything, although it is very hard for a political party or an attorney for ten years to maintain their representation for a trial," said Lara at the gates of the fairground of A Coruña, where it participates in the concentration convened by Never Mais. The counsel of the chief engineer of the Prestige, Nikolaos Argyropoulos, has threatened to resign if the State does not grant a bill higher than usual, as was done in the case of the 11-M. The remuneration stipulated for such a lawyer is about 430 euros for the seven months of view.
スペインのガルシア地方沖で沈没した石油輸送船プレステージ(PRESTIGE)号が、2002年にガルシア地方を中心に1'600kmの海岸を石油汚染した石油環境汚染事故の裁判
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