The court of the National Court that judges the Gürtel case has ordered Francisco Camps on Tuesday to change places in the defendant's dock to avoid new clashes with other defendants. "It is for prevention. The room has to keep order, there have already been too many incidents," explained the president of the court, José Antonio Mora Alarcón, at the beginning of the hearing.
The decision comes after a second incident occurred in the courtroom on Monday. According to the defendant's lawyer, Álvaro Pérez, El Bigotes, Camps called him "miserable" when he was questioning his client.
Initially, the court has ordered Camps to sit "in the front row" of the several arranged for the defendants in the special courtroom that the Court has in San Fernando de Henares. This is how he had it on hand to check "if something inappropriate happened and that there is no doubt that this gentleman maintains order in the room. The best place for him is here."
It has barely lasted there for a minute, because finally, Camps has made use of his rights as a practicing lawyer to put on his toga and sit next to his lawyer on the podium reserved for the defenses. Camps' lawyer, Pablo Delgado, has denied that Camps insulted Bigotes and has announced that he would file a lawsuit against his lawyer, Gustavo Galán, because what he maintains is "absolutely a lie."
With Camps already among the lawyers, the trial has restarted with the statement of the alleged number two of Gürtel in the Valencian Community, Cándido Herrero. He asks the former president of Camps Anticorrupción for two and a half years in prison and 10 years of disqualification in relation to the awarding of a stand in Fitur to the corrupt network. On Monday, Bigotes highlighted his personal friendship with Camps, of which he said that he had always given him "work."
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