Posted on 10/22/2006 3:19:10 AM PDT by J Aguilar
The Forensic expert that summoned the PSOE to the 3/11 Commission hindered it.
The Scientific Police Had No Access During Hours to the Bodies of the “Suicides” of Leganés.
Nobody has been able to explain yet why the autopsies to the rests of the alleged suicides of Leganés were not performed; in spite of the Law demanding it in any violent death. But this is not the only bizarre point surrounding the processes carried out on the corpses found in Leganés. When the Scientific Police appeared at the Anatomic Forensic Institute to exam the rests and take samples from the bodies of the “suicides”, they were stopped. The Scientific Police had no access to the corpses until seven hours later. During all this time the bodies were under control of the specialist in forensic anthropology that the PSOE [Socialist Party] summoned to the 3/11 Commission of Investigation.
LD (Luis del Pino) After the explosion of the Leganés apartment, the tasks of removing debris and gathering of rests continued during the Sunday 4th of April, 2004. Both operations were directed in situ by Judge Teresa Palacios. The rests of the alleged suicides were sent to the Anatomic Forensic Institute to carry out the corresponding studies and legal procedures.
The director of the Anatomic Forensic Institute, Carmen Baladía, was not in her post, since she had just gone on leave a few days before, to recover from the terrific wear suffered on the fatidic 3/11, when she had to organize the autopsies of victims in the improvised morgue that was converted the IFEMA [Madrid Trade Fair].
On charge of everything, Carmen Baladía had left doctor Pera, as acting director. However, the person that assumed the tasks after the explosion of the Leganés apartment was not doctor Pera, but the chief of the Anthropology Section of the Institute, José Luis Prieto Carrero, that did not follow the acting director’s instructions and took charge of everything related to the bodies of the “suicides”, with doctor Pera not being able to prevent it.
At 11:30 AM on Monday, April 5th, civil servants from the Section of Anthropology and Biology of the General Offices of the Scientific Police arrived at the Anatomic Forensic Institute to collaborate in the tasks of examining the corpses and take DNA samples of the rests, in order to identify them. However, doctor Prieto, faced the civil servants, and in somewhat bad manners, told them that the examination of the corpses would be carried out by personnel under his responsibility and that he was not going to leave them take DNA samples, unless he received a written order from the Judge in charge of the case indicating so, because he was told to send the samples to the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (INTC) in Madrid. After that, he said to the members of the Scientific Police to come back at 6:00 PM.
At 6:00 PM the Police civil servants returned to the offices of the Anatomic Forensic Institute, where they were told again that the gathering of DNA samples was now on charge of the INTC and that they were not allowed to enter unless a written order from the judge was sent. Judge Teresa Palacios herself, that was supervising the tasks of removing debris in Leganés, called doctor Prieto to order him to grant the members of the Scientific Police access to the corpses. But not even this was enough, since Prieto opposed, without having this order written, something, that from Leganés, the Judge obviously could not do. Finally, after much discussion, the civil servants were allowed to take the DNA samples, leaving just after it.
It was doctor Prieto’s team which carried out the anthropological, toxicological and radiological studies of the corpses of the alleged suicides. However, what is surprising is that the required autopsy reports were not written. The wrongdoing is so big, that Judge Del Olmo [the investigating judge in the whole 3/11 case] had to ask doctor Prieto two years later, to write those autopsy reports. But it was too late. Del Olmo could order to perform a second autopsy (or, better said, a first autopsy), but what he could not order is to write a report on an autopsy that had not been carried out. After the warning of the director of the Institute to the Judge, informing him that his request was irregular, the Judge decided to cancel this request asking for the writing of the report. That is, the judicial summary of 3/11 contains at this moment, no real autopsy report of the suicides of Leganés.
Doctor Prieto starred in another peculiar incident in the 3/11 Commission of Investigation. The Socialist Party summoned him to the Commission in order to counteract in the [mass] media the testimony of Carmen Baladía, and did so naming him “Deputy Director of the Anatomic Forensic Institute”, post that not only he did not hold, but that did not even exist: in the Anatomic Forensic Institute there is no deputy director post. Prieto himself had to send a writing explaining that he was not the deputy director of the Institute; in spite of this, his appearance was not cancelled.
It is striking in the sequence of events that occurred after the explosion of the Leganés apartment, the interest in keeping the civil servants of the Scientific Police away from the corpses. What was what they should not see? This is not the only occasion in which Scientific Police was wanted to be left aside, as the readers of Libertad Digital know: the rests from the explosion scenes in the trains were not brought to the Scientific Police either, as well as those civil servants were not allowed to take pictures of the backpack found in Vallecas, after it was defused. Who wanted to leave aside the Scientific Police in so many key elements of the investigation of 3/11? And why?
In the case of the suicides of Leganés, did someone try to hide something? If not, why hinder the access of the civil servants? Why no autopsy reports were signed?
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Other news from the Spanish Free Media concerning 3/11, that were brought out this week:
A poll published by EL MUNDO on October 16th, 2006 about 3/11, asking 800 Spaniards, nationwide:
1. Do you think essentially that all the truth about 3/11 is already known?
No: 67.5 %
Yes: 24.3 %
No answer/don’t know: 8.2 %
2. Do you think that the Zapatero government is interested in that the public knows all the truth about 3/11?
Yes: 46.3 %
No: 43.1 %
NA/DK: 10.6 %
3. Who do you think has been more interested in finding all the truth about 3/11?
The Press: 43.7 %
NA/DK: 22.1 %
Justice: 15.8 %
Police: 10.1 %
Parliament: 8.4 %
4. Do you think the press should continue investigating what happened on 3/11?
Yes: 75 %
No: 21.1 %
NA/DK: 3.9 %
5. Do you think that it is already clear what explosive detonated in the trains?
No: 50.4 %
Yes: 29.2 %
NA/DK: 20.4 %
6. Who do you think forged the document that linked 3/11 with ETA?
NA/DK: 52.4 %
The chief police officers that sent another text to the judge: 35.5 %
The police experts that denounced it: 12.2 %
7. Which of these affirmations you agree most? The Police and the Justice have…
…disdained the links between ETA and 3/11: 39.2 %
…investigated all the clues without any prejudice: 35.5 %
NA/DK: 25.3 %
8. Do you think there is any link between the attack [3/11] and members of the Moroccan secret services?
NA/DK: 44.9 %
No: 28.8 %
Yes: 26.3 %
9. Do you think it has been any link between 3/11 and ETA?
No: 52.3 %
Yes: 32.5 %
NA/DK: 15.2 %
As a summary, Spaniards majoritarily think that the 3/11 has not been thoroughly investigated, that the Press is more interested in doing so than Justice or the Police. Three out of four are willing to know more about the attacks thru the Press. They don’t believe the Official Version (publicised by all international mass media) on the critical issue of the kind of explosive used in the massacre. They don’t believe either that the forensic experts had forged any report to link 3/11 with ETA, but that their chiefs forged it to erase that link. They think links about ETA regarding 3/11 have not been investigated but, faced to the direct question if they think ETA had something to do with 3/11, they opt majoritarily to dismiss it, maybe because admitting it, is to admit that there were a Coup d’Etat in Spain, that is, an anathema to the almighty Left.
As a political commentator put it, Spaniards do not like to be deceived by someone else, but to deceive themselves.
Moreover, following previous weeks revelations published by EL MUNDO newspaper, on the forgery of a forensic report to avoid linking 3/11 with ETA, Judge Gallego, after the most-senior-anti-terrorist judge (as Expatica.com put it) and former Socialist Party candidate, was kicked out of the case for being out of his jurisdiction; has charged chief Police officer Ramírez with forgery, leaving the three forensic experts that denounced it as witnesses.
It is the first time a chief member of the Spanish Security Forces is accused with manipulating reports on the investigations of 3/11 but, I can assure you this, it won’t be the last.
In addition, chief Police officer Ramírez points the finger at his boss Pedro Mélida, to whom, he says, he consulted the matter.
The fourteen years of Socialist González government in Spain ended in 1996 with the much talked of scandal of the Dirty War against ETA, or GAL, which broke out when Police officers that participated began to blame each other as they faced serious charges.
More news on 3/11 investigation here:
Volunteers for the investigation of 3/11
English Thread @ Fondo Documental
More data on 3/11 here:
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 1
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 2
The Mystery of 3/11 - Part 3
3/11 Revisited - Part 1
More data on 3/11 in Spanish here:
Luis del Pino's blog
Kickjor's blog
Fascinating - and with predictable results for the election.
Why have events occurred in such a pattern?
The term "Whitewash" comes to mind.
It is reminiscent of bill clinton. Clinton not only replaced all the prosecutors and took control of the FBI and the CIA, he also paid special attention to the matter of coroners.
His own personal coroner in Arkansas was notorious for covering up Arkancides.
I wish I could say that five years with no answers is a shock, but we Americans still don’t have answers about the Oklahoma City bombing thirteen years after a similar number of our citizens died. It’s amazing what official policy can be if it suits those in charge.
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