Overview
- The public prosecutor filed an opinion supporting Carlos Mazón’s appeal to be recognized as a party in the DANA investigation and to access the case file.
- The filing argues that article 118 bis of Spain’s criminal procedure law lets aforados—lawmakers who can only be investigated by higher courts—exercise their defense and see documents even when they are not accused.
- The prosecutor also asked the court to uphold Mazón’s separate appeal against an April 15 order that denied him copies he requested to support his challenge.
- The sequence follows a March 31 ruling in which the Catarroja judge rejected his personación after the regional high court declined to investigate him and noted that Spanish law does not recognize an “assisted witness” status.
- If admitted, personación would allow Mazón to review more than 50 volumes containing over 500 statements from victims, relatives, and senior officials, while the provincial court in Valencia will now decide the appeal.