Posted on 12/28/2011 10:44:09 AM PST by J Aguilar
With Manzano, everything was mixed
The EDU provincial chief denounces that the reports on the explosives were concealed from him
LD has accessed new testimonies against Sanchez-Manzano.
The testimonies before judge Coro Cillan by the EDU officers who participated in the collection of the evidence from the attacks continue revealing that the former commander of the Central Unit of Explosive Disposal, Juan Jesus Sanchez-Manzano, failed to fulfill the protocol.
The person in charge of the Provincial Brigade for Explosive Disposal in Madrid, Jose Maria Caceres-Vadillo, who was present in the collection of samples at Atocha [station] and Tellez [street explosion scenes] , declared last Friday before the [judge] that the protocol “wasn’t fulfilled in many points”.
One of the key points of his testimony, inasmuch as to the newness it supposes, is that, after following the action protocol “to the letter”, he requested “the results of the analyses, since he needed to know the type of the explosive used". Nevertheless, he revealed, "a claim was presented for the information regarding the explosive [composition]" and "to this date, he has not received it".
Caceres-Vadillo said that he thinks that "the analyses that were carried out were from the trains" , although he recognizes that "he does not know whether everything was analyzed". He does not know either who was authorized or ordered to destroy the evidence from the 3/11 attacks, or the explosive samples.
Obstacles during the collection of evidence
Regarding the protocol, the agent explained that he tried to do "a relation of the evidence collected" on the attack in Atocha, "using stickers, small bags and paper" and writing down in them the evidence found, fulfilling the protocol so there was a record of the rests found and who found them.
Nevertheless, "when Mr. Manzano arrived, everything was mixed and some things were not labeled using stickers". The order from Sanchez-Manzano was, he declared, that "everything be sent to the Central Unit” of the EDU [instead of the Provincial Brigade]. Later, he was told that all the evidence had been disposed in a clean area and transferred" to the Central Unit.
The witness insisted that Manzano’s order was that the samples were "taken quickly to Maria Angeles", the expert leader who is also indicted in the case, "in order to begin the works". When EDU officers pointed out to him that “some evidence wasn’t labeled", Manzano reiterated that "they be transferred quickly". He also testified that in Tellez [street explosion scenes] he saw that their companions were doing nothing, he asked why "they were not working on the victims" and one of EDU officers, Carlos Miro, "was upset". He told that it was not normal that being him the operative commander, no information was being given to him.
In another point of the declaration, the witness related that, in spite of the necessity to be fast, "labeling hardly takes any time”. However, "they almost took off the evidence from [his] hands". The EDU officer explained that he had to obey the orders from the chain of command, but that when he saw "that the things were mixed, he left".
The protégé from Sanchez-Manzano was at Atocha station
In addition, the officer testified that Rogelio Campos –Sanchez-Manzano’s protégé and now executive at Repsol- not only was at Atocha but he was the one that became in charge of these explosion scenes and, therefore of the evidence collected. However, he denied before the judge being present and in charge of the transfer of the evidence to the Sanchez Manzano’s unit. Now, he is indicted for the crimes of false testimony and concealment of evidence.
Sanchez-Manzano and the leader of his explosives’ laboratory are charged with false testimony, omission of his duty of prosecuting crimes and concealment of evidence.
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Luis del Pino's blog
Incredible. One would be torn between incompetence and intentional obfuscation-until you learn of all the ties protecting the players. Repsol, the Socialists-is there anybody in the Spanish hierarchy who isn’t making a pain of themselves in this ‘investigation’?
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