The Prosecutor’s Office asks to fine Juana Rivas for abuse of rights after her complaint against Judge Píñar

The Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) not to admit for processing the complaint for prevarication and “institutional abuse” that Juana Rivas has filed against the head of the Criminal Court 1 of Granada, Judge Manuel Piñar, which initially sentenced her to five years in prison for the abduction of her two children, after she took them out of Italy in 2016 without parental permission and brought them to Spain, staying with them for a month with their whereabouts unknown. If the complaint is rejected, the Public Ministry also requests that Juana Rivas be fined 5,000 euros for abuse of rights, according to sources from the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of Andalusia. The complaint against Judge Píñar, filed with the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), has been presented for a continuous crime of judicial prevarication and attack against moral integrity (institutional mistreatment) for the alleged “illegal decisions” to adopted by the judge “during the processing of the execution”, as Juana Rivas’s lawyers detailed in a statement at the time. complaint and that Rivas be fined 5,000 euros for abuse of rights, according to what ‘El Español’ advanced this Thursday. The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJA received the complaint on July 26 and transferred it to the Prosecutor’s Office so that inform about the admission or not of the same, a report that in any case is not binding. Once the Prosecutor’s Office has answered, the Chamber will be the one to decide whether to admit the complaint for processing, according to judicial sources. The case The case of this mother from Maracena (Granada) reached the Supreme Court, which lowered from five to two sentence of years and a half and that she was finally pardoned by the Government in November of last year. Rivas’s lawyers accuse Judge Manuel Piñar of processing the pardon file “absolutely lacking competence to do so” and “with the sole intention to report negatively” with “absolute partiality, intentionally altering reality and concealing the very existence of that file from the defense.” “Indeed, knowing perfectly well that the final conviction that was issued in the execution of Juana Rivas was issued by the Supreme Court, has usurped the powers of our highest court, giving rise to the existence of two parallel pardon files: one duly informed by the Trib unal Supreme, and another that should never have been processed, and that was informed with manifest bias by the defendant”, affirmed from the legal team of Rivas.” They add that “at the same time, in the criminal procedure, he knowingly issued several resolutions of their injustice, with a clear lack of impartiality and objectivity”. In this sense, they cite an order of May 27, 2021 in which “the execution is opened and without any procedure the search, capture and imprisonment” of Juana Rivas is agreed. In turn, through another order of May 9, 2021 “it is agreed that there will be no suspension of the sentence.”