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Baltasar Garzón Real (Spanish pronunciation: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣaɾˈθon]; born 26 October 1955) is a Spanish former judge. He served on Spain's central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, and was the examining magistrate of the Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 5, which investigates the most important criminal cases in Spain, including terrorism, organised crime, and money laundering.
Baltasar Garzón dirigió importantes operaciones contra el tráfico de drogas, especialmente en Galicia. Con la operación Nécora, en 1990, desarticuló la organización liderada por Laureano Oubiña [20] y, con la operación «Pitón» (1991), detuvo a los integrantes del llamado «clan de los Charlines» que operaba en las costas gallegas.
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May 3, 2024 · October 26, 1955, Torres, Spain (age 68) Baltasar Garzón (born October 26, 1955, Torres, Spain) is a Spanish judge famous for his high-profile investigations into crimes against humanity. Garzón, the second of five children in a middle-class family, grew up in Andalusia in southern Spain. Raised a Roman Catholic, he attended a seminary for ...
Aug 26, 2021 · A gavel in a courtroom. The UN Human Rights Committee concluded on Thursday that the trials of a former Spanish judge in two major political cases were arbitrary and did not comply with the principles of judicial independence and impartiality. Former Judge Baltasar Garzón of the Spanish National Court was suspended in 2010 and criminally ...
Aug 26, 2021 · Español. GENEVA (26 August 2021) — The trials of former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón in the Franco and Gürtel cases were arbitrary and did not comply with the principles of judicial independence and impartiality, the UN Human Rights Committee concluded in a decision to be released today.
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Baltasar Garzón. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has issued a strong opinion on the prosecution of Baltasar Garzón for prevarication in Spain, in which it states that there are objectively justified “doubts” that the magistrate had “access to an independent and impartial court” in the processes of the Franquismo and Gürtel ...
Biography: Judge Baltasar Garzón has made an illustrious career taking on powerful enemies, specializing in cases against government corruption, organized crime, terrorists, state antiterrorism units, and drug lords. In 1973 Augusto Pinochet led a bloody military coup against democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende of Chile.
