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Civil Guard generals allege pressure to sideline investigators probing Government

Civil Guard generals allege pressure to sideline investigators probing Government

Generals Yuste and López Malo told Spain's Senate that DAO Llamas instructed the UCO to take a lower profile in government-related judicial investigations.

Two senior Civil Guard generals went on the record before the Spanish Senate to state that their superior, DAO Llamas, instructed them to have the UCO adopt a discreet stance in judicial inquiries involving the Government, according to El Mundo. The claim, if accurate, would mean that Spain's elite judicial investigation unit faced internal pressure to limit its work on active cases. 🔹 What happened: Llamas appeared before the Senate and described certain UCO actions as "toxic" and as reflecting an "excess of prominence." Generals Yuste and López Malo testified that Llamas specifically told them to have the UCO go "off profile" in government-related investigations. Llamas said he did not recognize himself in that account and stated that investigative authority rests with the judge, not his unit. The two versions are mutually exclusive and are now part of the Senate record. 🔹 Why it matters: For the agents of the UCO who carry out investigations, this dispute is not procedural — it concerns whether their operational capacity can be constrained before findings reach a judge. Citizens relying on independent judicial investigation as a check on power have a direct stake in which account the Senate treats as credible. If internal pressure on a judicial elite unit is documented and goes unaddressed, the practical consequence is that some investigations may never develop beyond what the chain of command allows through. 📌 EPM Take: The sharpest irony here is structural: the Senate, a body where political pressure is at its most concentrated, is now the venue where two generals are claiming they were pressured to contain an investigation touching on political power. Yuste and López Malo made a falsifiable claim — specific enough that it could, in principle, be corroborated or disproven by communications, meeting records, or additional witnesses. EPM has reported on Spain's escalating institutional tensions in recent months. What this episode adds is a new layer: the friction is no longer only between branches of government, but within the security forces that serve them. The scenario worth naming is one where the Senate record becomes evidence in the very judicial proceedings the UCO was allegedly told to downplay.
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