"An injustice in Spain": reactions in the press after the suspension of Judge Garzon.
"An injustice in Spain." So this entitles his editorial Saturday The New York Times. The newspaper he dnds New York Baltasar Garzon, who was suspended Friday as a precautionary measure as a judge of the High Court after the judge decided Luciano Varela open trial for an alleged crime of prevarication in trying to investigate the crimes of the Franco dictatorship.
"A Garzon must, sto credits, be allow to return to work sooner. Spain needs an honest explanation about his turbulent past, not the persecution of those who have the courage to claim it," concludes the Times opinion column.
Almost all the international press has echoed the suspension. The British Guardian reports that the "judge of Pinochet" has been temporarily suspended the judiciary in what seems a, ffxiv gil, politically motivated persecution. "
"The judge of the Crusades" (Times), the "superjuez" (Le Figaro) … are some of the adjectives that accompany the information on Garzon, who in most cases they would prr to remember his biography "stellar" and "controversial" (BBC) as a scourge of former dictators, gangsters and terrorists.
In Argentina, where the Spanish judge is well known and appreciated, also reports on, aika gold, the decision of the General Council of the Judiciary. Pagina/12 the Buenos Aires newspaper titled its editorial a reverse of Justice or the Justice backwards and says that "the indignation was made flesh in thousands of demonstrators in major cities," after the news.
Garzon and the stock market players
The collapse of the Stock Exchange, which on Friday suffered the most significant fall since October 2008, Garzon shares with all the covers of the Spanish press. "Garzon to investigate Franco's regime falls," five columns titled El Pais, "Garzon loses its power after being suspended by unanimity," says El Mundo, "Garzon, away from the judiciary", says La Vanguardia.
Garzon also cup holders and photographs. The moment when the judge leaves the High Court, embraced and applauded by citizens and workers of the court, has been chosen by almost all the newspapers to illustrate the news.