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The Municipal Socialist Group spokesman, Jose Ignacio Gras, believes that the city of Murcia should be removed as private prosecution in the case Umbra "if you will not defend the general interests, since different information and statements of the prosecution we know about actions of municipal lawyers more seem to point to that act as defense lawyers of the accused in this case that of accusers to restore any damages to public coffers. "

Specifically, the PSOE refers to the fact that the city attorney has requested the dismissal of the separate "New Condomina 'Umbra part of the case, in response to an order of the judge David Castillejos confirming evidence of crime of former Mayor Miguel Angel Chamber, the president of Real Murcia, Jesus Samper and former officials of the Planning, Pedro Morillas and Joaquín Peñalver.

According to Gras, "if city lawyers believe they should not hold the charge, can not keep making improper use of the figure of the prosecution. We have recent experience in cases of alleged corruption, as the case Gürtel or Bárcenas in which a political party, the Popular Party, presented himself as a private prosecution, when in fact exercised a defender of the accused, who were none other than public office and senior leaders of the PP ".

Indeed, the Socialist Municipal Group directed takes a little more than a week a letter to mayor José Ballesta in recalling that the lawyers of the City are to defend the common interest and not the personal interests of the accused, so that they can not act as defending them.

The city spokesman, and after consultation with various lawyers, believes that allegedly what you are doing legal representation of the City "does not correspond to the content and purpose of a prosecution themselves in a criminal process and we seem to be talking about a procedural fraud ".

Therefore, "if the council has not been damaged in this matter, according to that representation, why is themselves known private prosecution? That is the question we must ask," he concludes Gras.

Source: PSOE Murcia