In Spain, the government is determined to confuse the State with a private property where it can do whatever it wants.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez's wife will be tried for embezzlement by a jury<\/big><\/p>\n Yesterday it was news that Judge Peinado has decided that Pedro S\u00e1nchez's wife be tried for the crime of embezzlement of public funds<\/a> by a jury. Let us also remember that Bego\u00f1a G\u00f3mez is being investigated for four other crimes<\/a>: influence peddling, business corruption, misappropriation and intrusion.<\/p>\n The Spanish Penal Code defines embezzlement as a crime in Articles 432 to 435 bis. This crime is punishable by up to eight years in prison<\/strong> and consists of the misappropriation of public assets by an official or authority for personal gain. Article 435 identifies individuals legally designated as custodians of public funds or assets as liable for this crime<\/strong>, a criminal offense that could encompass the conduct for which S\u00e1nchez's wife is being tried.<\/p>\n Nervousness in the government, which has been attacking the judge in the case<\/big><\/p>\n That announcement, made public yesterday, has generated great nervousness in the government, which has begun to attack the judge<\/strong>, once again, as it has been doing for months. The attacks have been furious, as demonstrated by the fact that Judge Peinado has sued two Socialist ministers for violating his right to honor<\/a> in some of these attacks: the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska<\/strong>, and the Minister of Transport, \u00d3scar Puente<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Congress censures the Minister of Equality for the anti-abuse bracelet scandal<\/big><\/p>\n As if the above were not enough, yesterday afternoon the Congress of Deputies censured the Minister of Equality, the socialist Ana Redondo<\/a>, for the scandal of the anti-abuse bracelets that have endangered women<\/strong>, after the government decided to replace the devices used until now, made in Israel, with Chinese bracelets that are defective.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez uses a Navy ship to make headlines and cover up his scandals.<\/big><\/p>\n Late in the afternoon, finding himself politically in deep water, S\u00e1nchez launched another smokescreen to grab headlines<\/strong> and prevent the aforementioned scandals from making television news headlines and the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers. The Socialist leader announced the dispatch of a Navy ship to support a flotilla<\/a> in which Spanish far-left activists are participating, who are trying to reach the shores of Gaza despite it being a combat zone and violating the naval blockade imposed by Israel. With this decision, S\u00e1nchez continues to fuel the confrontation with the Jewish state to use it as a distraction<\/strong>, so that the media will focus on that and not talk about the corruption scandals affecting the government.<\/p>\n This time, the Prime Minister has exceeded all tolerable limits with this smokescreen. Article 8 of the Spanish Constitution<\/a> states that the Armed Forces \"have the mission of guaranteeing the sovereignty and independence of Spain, defending its territorial integrity and the constitutional order\"<\/em><\/strong>. It is intolerable to use the Spanish Navy for political purposes, wasting Spanish money and sending a warship to provoke a conflict with another country to cover up inconvenient headlines for the government<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A possible crime of embezzlement punishable by up to 4 years in prison<\/big><\/p>\n Regarding this type of conduct, Article 433 of the Penal Code defines the following variant of the crime of embezzlement:<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Any authority or public official<\/strong> who, without being included in the previous articles, gives public assets a public purpose different from that for which they were intended, shall incur the penalties of imprisonment from one to four years<\/strong> and special disqualification from public employment or office from two to six years, if this results in serious damage or obstruction of the service to which they were assigned, and disqualification from public employment or office from one to three years and a fine of three to twelve months, if this does not result.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This paragraph fits like a glove with the conduct displayed by S\u00e1nchez yesterday<\/strong> when he announced the dispatch of that Spanish Navy ship for purely personal purposes that have nothing to do with the sovereignty and independence of Spain, with the defense of its territorial integrity, or with the defense of the constitutional order. S\u00e1nchez is acting as if Spain were his private estate and as if our Navy were part of his private business.<\/strong> I hope he ends up answering for this act, as for many others, before a court, because this is using one embezzlement to cover up another.<\/strong><\/p>\n The government refused to send a plane to repatriate a Spanish woman in a coma<\/big><\/p>\n
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