The Ministry of Justice has requestedNational Court that the former president of the Barca Sandro Rosell compensation for damages in excess of the 27 euros set for each day he was in prison. Rosell’s lawyers have criticized the court’s decision, calling it “controversial writing lacking any legal logic.” The former Barça president was deprived of his liberty for 645 days (about 22 months), so that the maximum compensation requested by the ministry headed by Pilar Llop is 17,415 euros. Rosell was released after a trial in the National High Court in which he was acquitted of all charges against him.
Criticisms of Justice’s reasoning
Rosell’s lawyers criticize it as the Ministry of Justice’s first statement after more than 18 months and its text. “Surprisingly, given the resolutions of existing contracts that occurred with a specific cause in the imprisonment of Sandro Rosell, which lasted for two years, and the abundant economic damage that these resolutions entailed, the Ministry of Justice considers that these no damage would have occurred if Sandro Rosell had complied with the performance of the contracts binding him in court, as if the deprivation of liberty of one of the contracting parties did not constitute a just cause for termination of the contract.
“Sandro Rosell’s legal team – the note continues – maintains its confidence that the National High Court, far from reasoning without any legal basis, will repair the enormous damage inflicted by the investigating magistrate Carmen Lamela in criminal proceedings. On the other hand, sources close to Mr. Rosell reiterate his firm will to prevent by all legal means at his disposal that taxpayers end up paying for the injustice that was committed, since, in his opinion, it is only attributable to the magistrate and / or the environment in which he was protected ».
At the European Court of Human Rights
And the statement concludes: “In this sense, Sandro Rosell, who has recently seen his appeal for protection before the constitutional Court in relation to the complaint he filed with the said magistrate, it did not take long to raise the matter to the European Court of Human Rights».
