Angel Carromero

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Ángel Carromero (2014)

Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios (born November 12, 1985 in Madrid ) is a Spanish politician and licensed attorney who is employed as a consultant in the city council of Madrid. He became internationally known after a rental car he was driving on July 22, 2012 in Cuba got off a country road under controversial circumstances, hit a tree and in this context the Cuban opposition politician Oswaldo Payá , who was awarded international awards for his commitment to democracy, and his party friend Harold Cepero perished. The case, which was closely watched in many countries, was given high political relevance due to numerous unanswered questions and various allegations. It led to diplomatic entanglements between Cuba and Spain, some of which also included Sweden , the home country of Aron Modig, Carromero's travel companion, who, like Carromero, was largely unharmed in the incident. Carromero was sentenced to four years in prison for negligent homicide and was transferred to Spain at the end of December 2012, where he has been serving the rest of his sentence in open prison since the beginning of January 2013 . In Spain, Carromero was publicly hostile by many opponents of the government, as the way the authorities dealt with him and the funding of his job were interpreted as special perks due to his political involvement in the ruling party.

Political commitment

Carromero has been an active member of Nuevas Generaciones ("New Generations", NNGG) since his youth , the youth organization of the conservative Spanish ruling party Partido Popular (People's Party, PP). He has been chairman of the NNGG in the Madrid district of Salamanca since 2006 and has also been general secretary (the second highest office after the chairmanship) of the organization for the Madrid region since October 2013, having previously been deputy. His most important friend and supporter within the party is Pablo Casado , from 2005 to 2013 NNGG chairman for Madrid, current member of the Congreso de los Diputados , former employee of the ex-head of government José María Aznar and confidante of the long-time head of government of the Madrid region and people's party Chairman for Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre , both of whom belong to the conservative wing of the party. After Carromero hit the headlines because of the events in Cuba, Casado took on the role of unofficial spokesman for the family.

Studies and employment

Carromero took a double degree in law and business administration at the renowned Pontifical University of Comillas (UPCo-ICADE) in Madrid, but dropped out prematurely. He has a law degree ( Licenciatura ) from the Catholic University of Ávila (UCAV). Carromero is admitted to the bar at the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (ICAM), the Madrid Bar Association. However, he is currently not in the job. He took courses in banking and international relations at Fordham University in New York . From January 2009 he was employed as an employee of the city councilor Begoña Larraínzar of the city administration of Madrid, initially as a consultant in the La Latina district, from June 2011 to March 2013 as a technical advisor in the Moratalaz district, since then as an employee of the PP group in the city parliament of Madrid. Carromero's employer is his party colleague Ana Botella, who ruled the city of Madrid as mayor with an absolute majority of the People's Party and is married to José María Aznar. In the Spanish media, Carromero's annual salary of just over 50,000 euros was criticized in January 2013 as being too high in relation to his qualifications and solely due to his political involvement in the People's Party. According to the union, more than 50 percent of his work colleagues within the administration of the Moratalaz district supported a protest appeal to the district head against his continued employment in the public service in view of the high firing rates. All the trade unions represented in the Madrid City Council's staff council supported a public demonstration against Carromero in front of the Moratalaz district administration. In connection with the prominent case of Carromeros and the current economic and financial crisis in Spain, the public debate that arose was criticized for the fact that in the administration of the city of Madrid, which has been ruled by the People's Party for 23 years, more than 200 well-paid positions of politicians without advertising were awarded. A large number of the holders of these positions, which are endowed with a total of 10 million euros annually, are, like Carromero, either self-earned members or family members of officials of the People's Party. Carromero was the sole managing director of a small investment firm until 2010, when his mother replaced him in this position.

Trip to Cuba 2012

On July 19, 2012, Carromero traveled to Cuba to spend his summer vacation there. He traveled with the 27-year-old Swede Aron Modig, who had been chairman of Kristdemokratiska ungdomsförbundet (Christian Democratic Youth Association, KDU), the youth organization of the Swedish Kristdemokraterna (Christian Democrats) , since June 2011 . Together they wanted to meet and support representatives of the Christian Democratic movement in Cuba during their vacation stay. Carromero gained international fame through the car trip with two Cubans on July 22nd, during which they died under controversial circumstances.

Details of the planned stay in Cuba

According to statements made by Modig as a remand prisoner in Havana on July 30, shortly before his departure, he followed, with Carromero's support, instructions from his party that had three goals for the trip: first, a meeting with the leader of the Cuban Christian Democrats, Oswaldo Payá handing over money to him, secondly an exchange of experiences with young members of the Payas movement and thirdly the direct support and accompaniment of Payas in the transport from one part of Cuba to another. In total, he introduced 4000 euros to be handed over to opposition members. He was not aware that these meetings and money transfers were illegal under Cuban law, but only found out when they were in custody. Media reports identified the Swedish non-governmental organization Kristdemokratiskt Internationellt Center (Christian Democratic International Center, KIC) , which has been open to support the MCL for years , as the organizer of the trip and the source of the money to be handed over. Modig had already traveled to Cuba in 2009 to meet with dissidents and, according to his own statements, had already given money and equipment to a group of journalists and an economist. The chairman of the Nuevas Generaciones and member of parliament of the Spanish People's Party, Pablo Casado, later made it clear in Madrid that Carromero had not been sent to Cuba by the People's Party. Casado had traveled to Cuba himself five years earlier and met Payá there as well. When asked by the Spanish parliament, the Spanish government stated that it had no knowledge of Carromero's and Modig's activities in Cuba. Oswaldo Payá's daughter Rosa María told international media that on the afternoon of July 20, 2012, she had talked to Carromero and Modig about social issues, but that it was neither about money nor any form of foreign interference. Through the mass media that it controls, the Cuban government condemned Carromero and Modig's meetings with opposition representatives after the death of Oswaldo Payá as criminal agent activity. The two Europeans were involved in activities that were "directed against the constitutional order of the Republic of Cuba". However, the authorities did not bring charges against either.

Circumstances of the deaths of Oswaldo Payas and Harold Ceperos on July 22, 2012

On the morning of July 22nd, Carromero and Modig took the founder and chairman of the opposition Christian Freedom Movement ("Movimiento Cristiano Libertad", MCL), Oswaldo Payá, and MCL youth chairman Harold Cepero in Havana to one of them in a rental car the Cubans planned trip to the east of the island. After several hours of driving, they found themselves in the early afternoon between the cities of Las Tunas and Bayamo on the Carretera Central , the main road and main traffic axis running through Cuba. A meeting with other MCL supporters was planned for the evening at the destination Santiago de Cuba . Carromero drove the car ( Hyundai Accent ), Modig sat in the passenger seat, Payá and Cepero sat in the back seat. On an unpaved stretch of country road near the village of Las Gabinas where construction work was being carried out to repair the pavement, Carromero lost control of the vehicle, which went off the road and eventually hit the side of a tree. The driver and front passenger were only slightly injured.

Investigations and representations of official Cuban bodies

According to official reports, it was an ordinary traffic accident in which the 60-year-old Payá was killed immediately and the 31-year-old Cepero died a little later from his serious injuries. Although the Cuban media generally does not report traffic accidents involving the order of two deaths , an unusually lengthy piece of news about the accident appeared in the daily Granma , the government's publicity medium, on July 23 , which was subsequently read out on radio, television and by others Media was taken literally. Under the heading “Two people die in an unfortunate road accident in Granma province”, the exact names and origins of the four inmates were given, but without mentioning the particular prominence of the two fatalities as opposition politicians who had been accused by the government several times as criminals in the past . The two Europeans were taken into police custody immediately after the accident, taken to Bayamo provincial hospital, where they were examined and then interrogated for several days.

On July 27, the authorities published an investigation report into the state media into the accident and the exact causes of death. Accordingly, the roadway in the section in question was very slippery due to gravel , but the two-kilometer-long, straight repair section was properly provided with warning signs. Three eyewitnesses were quoted who confirmed that the car had driven into the danger zone at significantly excessive speed and shortly thereafter drifted off the lane.

Statements by Carromero and Modig on the facts

The first statements by Carromero and Modig after the violent end of the car journey were made in the form of text messages (SMS) to friends in Sweden and Spain, some of which were made public in February 2013 by Paya's relatives and the content of which Carromero and Modig subsequently confirmed. Among the published reports, one of particular interest was one that Modig had sent from the hospital in Bayamo to Sweden on his mobile phone a few hours after the controversial event with the following content: "Ángel says that someone tried to drive us off the road" ( "Ángel säger att någon försökte tränga oss av vägen"). On July 30, 2012, however, the Cuban authorities released a video film in which Carromero and Modig, who were in custody at the time, supported the unencumbered version of an ordinary traffic accident previously disseminated by the authorities. Carromero testified that he could not say exactly how fast he was driving at the moment of the accident, but that he had driven 80 km / h when he last looked at the speedometer. He also said literally: “No vehicle gave us a push from behind” (“a nosotros no nos dio ningún vehículo por la parte trasera”). After suddenly reaching a large pothole on the gravel-covered roadway, he took “the precautionary measure of every motorist” and braked slightly. Then he lost control of the car. He couldn't remember seeing a warning. In the same video, he called on the international public to focus on helping him leave Cuba, rather than using the accident, which could have happened to anyone, to pursue political goals. Carromero retracted these statements in an interview published on March 5, 2013 with the Washington Post , in which he stated that he was killed by the Cuban security officers who interrogated him for several days and administered intravenous drugs he did not know threatened and urged to support the official version of the accident. In the interview, he further stated that he had already testified to the first officer of the Cuban security forces who questioned him at the Bayamo hospital that he had lost control of the car after a second car hit him from behind.

On July 30, Modig, who at that time was still prevented from returning home by the Cuban authorities, was presented at two successive press conferences recorded by television cameras, where when asked, he said in the first that he had not seen anything abnormal, and then later in the second conference that he had no memory of the accident or another vehicle because he was half asleep at the time in question. He confirmed that he had sent text messages to various people from the hospital after the accident, but he could no longer remember the exact content. In essence, he had informed that he was fine. Shortly afterwards he was allowed to leave Cuba as a free man for Europe, while Carromero remained in Cuban custody as the driver responsible for the car that crashed. After his return to Sweden, Modig's party canceled an initially announced press conference with reference to the impending trial against Carromero, as Modig did not want to get his friend into trouble. A few days later, Modig only said on the subject that he had lost much of his memory of the unfortunate day and that he could not contribute anything to the explanation. He also stated this in his letter of condolence to the relatives of Payá, which he sent by email from Sweden to Payá's daughter. He later added that after he remembered the trip, Carromero had not driven recklessly. The Spaniard is innocent and, in his view, it is wrong to accuse him of a crime. Following Carromero's statements in March 2013, after it had not been an accident, Modig said that he had no doubts about the portrayal of Carromero, but without being able to provide any information about what happened.

Statements made by relatives of Oswaldo Payas contradict the official account

Statements citing confidants of Carromeros and Modigs in Europe

Even before Payá's death was reported, his family published a call for help on the afternoon of July 22nd on the organization's website, which is managed from the MCL's exile in Madrid. In it, Payas's worried wife, Ofelia Acevedo, reported that her husband and Harold Cepero were in an unknown location after the car they were using was deliberately rammed. Two “solidarity friends” who had accompanied the two MCL members were admitted to the Bayamo provincial hospital with minor injuries. Only in the following days did it become known that Payá's family had been informed by recipients of the messages from Carromero and Modig in Europe. In mid-August, Acevedo specified that she first received two calls at 3 p.m., followed by a text message with the following content: “There were four people driving, only three of them are in the hospital, one is unknown. Two friends, one of them passed out, were rammed and taken off the road. Do you know who the other two were? One of them is not known where he is. ”Acevedo and her daughter Rosa María Payá said in interviews with foreign journalists that Carromero had announced to Europe that they had been followed by a car that they had rammed several times. This was reported to them by telephone by a friend in Stockholm and by Regis Iglesias, the exiled spokesman for the MCL in Madrid. Iglesias later specified that Modig had sent the message to Annika Rigö, the director of the KIC organization in Stockholm and the initiator of the Cuba trip, and that she had forwarded it to the Spaniard Cayetana Muriel Aguado, who lives in Stockholm. Muriel, a member of the Swedish Christian Democrats and a member of the KIC's Cuba Project, who was in Spain at the time, met with Iglesias and Carlos Payá, the brother of the deceased dissident who lived in Spain, at the MCL headquarters met in Madrid and showed them the news that several members of the Spanish People's Party had also received. Carlos Payá also later confirmed that he had seen text messages sent from Modig's mobile phone that read: “They followed us” and “They rammed us”. Before he knew about his brother's fate, he called his sister-in-law in Havana and passed the information on.

Neither the Cuban, nor the Swedish or Spanish authorities gave any information about the existence or content of these messages. The recipients of the information in Madrid and Stockholm did nothing to clarify the situation and remained anonymous. Until Carromero's return to Spain, this was partly justified by the fact that no one wanted to worsen his situation in Cuba. In some cases, they even caused additional contradictions: María Fuster, Carromeros' party friend responsible for international relations on the board of Nuevas Generaciones , said she had met with both of them in Madrid the evening before Modig and Carromero's flight to Havana, and was in contact with them stayed and had also received text messages on July 22nd. When asked by a journalist in January 2013 why she had spread Twitter reports on July 23 that the car had been “attacked” and the two Cubans had been “murdered”, she initially denied this. After being presented with her own reports, she claimed that she was merely spreading what was said on the Internet. Immediately afterwards, she deleted the relevant messages in her Twitter account.

The Payas family also pointed out that a few weeks before his death Payá had been rammed by a heavy collective taxi in his own car ( VW bus ), in which he was traveling with his wife on the outskirts of Havana. The couple's vehicle overturned sideways, but luckily Payá was only slightly injured, while Acevedo was uninjured. In an e-mail to his brothers abroad, Oswaldo Payá rated the incident as a targeted attack that the taxi driver was a former police officer who threatened him in the hospital, where Payá was examined after the accident. On previous occasions, according to his brother Carlos, wheel nuts on the parked car had already been secretly loosened, but Oswaldo Payá had been informed of the accidentally observed manipulation by neighbors. Even after Payá's death, the relatives continued to be persecuted by employees of the state security, including while driving. After Carromero had already returned to Spain, Carlos Payá reported that a young official of the People's Party who had traveled to Cuba before Carromero had informed him that he had also been rammed while driving there, but had been able to control the car. Carromero was not the first PP representative in Cuba to be threatened by the authorities. In a report on Spanish radio Onda Cero, the station's security policy expert pointed out the similarities to the fatal car accident of "Comandante Barbarroja" Manuel Piñeiro in 1998, a founder of the secret services of the Cuban revolutionary leadership . The death of Oswaldo Payá is a "secret service classic".

Statements citing family friends in Bayamo

Payas's widow also reported that she had been given the testimony that the police investigator in charge read a few hours after the incident in the Bayamo hospital, where he had been heard from family friends there. According to this, a red Lada was driving next to the rental car that went off the road shortly afterwards. The occupants of the car were the first at the scene of the accident, one of them called an ambulance with his mobile phone. Carromero cursed the occupants of the car when they were the first to approach him shortly after the impact, and he asked who they were and why they had done "this" to them (the four occupants). These statements should be part of the investigation file, although they were not used in the later proceedings. The family pointed out that Payá's movements were regularly followed by the Cuban State Security (Seguridad del Estado) authorities and that they must have monitored him immediately before he set out on the trip and observed him as he left the city. Under the pseudonym "Yohandry Fontana", which they often used on the Internet for exclusive reports directed against the opposition, the security authorities spread the message on Twitter on Sunday morning that Payá was on vacation in Varadero and that the dissident business was a loose life. The authorities did not provide any explanation for the background to this Twitter message.

Despite repeated requests from the Payá family, none of the relatives of the two victims had the opportunity to speak to Carromero or Modig in Cuba. On the basis of the various statements that Paya's relatives had received from various sources and which in important points contradicted the official account of the events, they formulated several questions to the public, including: Did state security employees follow the car? If not, who were the people who were first on the scene after the impact and who called the ambulance? Is it true that a medical examiner was already present in the ambulance? If so, how did it come about? What condition was Harold Cepero in immediately after the accident and who was treating him? The request of the widow Payas for an independent investigation into the circumstances under which her husband and Harold Cepero died met with support in international politics, including from Arnold Vaatz, who is responsible for human rights issues in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

In contrast, the prominent Cuban human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez told international media representatives on July 23 that information he had received from acquaintances close to the scene of the incident in question indicated an accident. However, within a week, after learning of the statements made by the Payas family and the Cuban government, he changed his mind and said that the case had become even more opaque with every further attempt to clarify the matter by the Cuban government. Sánchez described it as necessary for the establishment of the truth for Carromero and Modig to travel to their home countries in order to provide information there. The Cuban government is notorious for its manipulation of information.

Carromero's detention conditions in Cuba

After her interview with Carromero on January 1st, Esperanza Aguirre reported on the conditions in which he was detained in Cuba. Until November 14th, 2012 he was only allowed to leave his cell once every two weeks. She contrasted this with the conditions for solitary prisoners in Spain who are allowed to leave their cells for two hours a day. She also said that while he was in custody in Bayamo for the first few days after July 22nd, he was forcibly sedated by an intravenous infusion of an unknown substance, which she judged to be "torture." Pablo Casado, who had also visited him in Segovia two days later, described the experience of Carromero's five-month detention in Cuba as a “nightmare”, highlighting the legal uncertainty and the accusations as an enemy agent. Casado also mentioned the drug infusion, which was responsible for the fact that Carromero had no memory of the first two weeks after the events of July 22nd. He was then subjected to prison conditions that corresponded to a “Stalinist dictatorship” and that “traumatized” him. Carromero thought the Spanish prison was like a "palace". On entering his cell he asked in astonishment: "Are there mattresses here?"

It is known about Carromero's detention in Cuba that after five days in Bayamo he was transferred to the police detention center “100 y Aldabó” on the outskirts of Havana. This headquarters of the Departamento Técnico de Investigaciones (Technical Investigation Department , DTI) of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior is particularly notorious as a prison for Cuban political prisoners, while foreign prisoners are usually housed in La Condesa prison, at least after conviction . After Carromero's stay in 100 y Aldabó became known , several former prisoners reported to the Spanish media about the methods of interrogation and detention conditions there.

Trial and manslaughter conviction

On October 5th, the trial of Carromero took place in Bayamo. The hearing was broadcast from the courtroom into the adjoining rooms using three video cameras, in which 50 accredited domestic and foreign media representatives who were not allowed to be present in the courtroom could follow their course. Yoani Sánchez , Cuba correspondent for the Spanish daily El País and most prominent government critic in Cuba, and her husband Reinaldo Escobar, who wanted to observe the trial, were stopped on the way from Havana to Bayamo and were temporarily held up on charges of disrupting the trial arrested. Opposition representatives, including Oswaldo Payas's bereaved relatives, were prevented by the authorities from accessing the trial, which was described as public.

The public prosecutor's office called for seven years in prison. According to the Cuban criminal law paragraph 177, a maximum sentence of ten years per fatality, i.e. a total of twenty years imprisonment, was possible. The accusation against Carromero was that he exceeded the speed limit and overlooked a warning sign. Both offenses were denied by the defense. According to the prosecution, his speed at the time he lost control of the car was 100 km / h. According to an alternative representation of the defense, which had commissioned its own expert, he drove between 64 and 83 km / h. According to the prosecution, the section of road was a “terraplén”, as defined by the Cuban Highway Code, with a general maximum speed of 60 km / h, while the defense argued that it was a “section of road without Asphalt "(" tramo de vía sin asfaltear ") traded, on which 90 km / h are permitted. The position and recognizability of the only (mobile) warning sign was also the subject of the negotiation. There was no material evidence for the position claimed by the prosecution, exactly at the required minimum distance in front of the danger zone. The defense at least demonstrated that the height of its attachment and its shape did not meet the minimum international requirements and argued based on its own photos that it was in an illegible condition, unsuitable for a warning sign. The relatives of the two fatalities waived the opportunity to join the prosecution as joint prosecutors. Before and after the trial, Payá's family stated several times that they considered Carromero innocent and did not believe the authorities' statements. The hearing, chaired by three professional and two lay judges, lasted more than eleven hours. At the beginning of the trial, the defendant expressed his great regret over the "unfortunate" deaths of the two Cubans, described the course of the accident from his point of view and declared himself not guilty.

The specific questions publicly asked by Payá's relatives about the circumstances of the accident remained unanswered both during and after the trial, and the information communicated to Europe by the survivors on the day of the incident was not addressed. The cell phones that could possibly be used as evidence and Oswaldo Payas's digital camera were neither mentioned in the published investigation report nor in the trial and were not given to the family by the authorities after the trial despite public requests. According to the family, about two months before his death, Payá began filming state security staff monitoring and chasing him with a small video camera in order to better document the shadowing and harassment he frequently complained about.

On October 15, the judge pronounced the guilty verdict with a sentence of four years imprisonment.

Carromero as the subject of Spanish-Cuban diplomacy

Until the conviction

Immediately after the deaths, the Spanish Foreign Ministry asked the various government institutions and members of the People's Party to be as reluctant as possible to comment on the Carromero case and the strained Spanish-Cuban relations. It was stated that statements could be harmful to Carromero. In addition to the threat of being sentenced to several years in prison for negligent homicide in traffic, there was a risk of an additional trial because of the more serious allegations of political interference with a higher sentence and a corresponding permanent strain on Cuban-Spanish relations. In contrast to the People's Party's usually very critical attitude towards the Castro regime, there was a noticeable silence in the second half of 2012. Spain's second largest news agency, Europa Press, reported that members of the party leadership had admitted that efforts to repatriate Carromero required them to maintain a "shameful silence" on Cuba. The Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo , an avowed opponent of the policy of opening up towards the Cuban regime pursued by the Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , made conspicuously conciliatory about Cuba during the negotiations about Carromero's departure. The Spanish consul in Havana, who was allowed to be present in the courtroom during Carromero's trial, even praised the press afterwards, saying that the process had been "correct", "clean" and "the procedure was flawless". According to Carlos Payá, however, a representative from the Spanish embassy in Havana told Ofelia Acevedo, who had asked for assistance in clarifying the circumstances of her husband's death, that the truth would be known as soon as Carromero left the country, suggesting the interpretation that the information provided so far was not true and was to be seen in the context of the priority objective of his earliest possible departure.

Sweden and Aron Modig

At the same time as the Carromero case, Swedish diplomacy tried to get Aron Modig to leave. The foreign ministry's only public statement came on July 28, when the ministry spokesman found Modig unjustified by the Cuban authorities since the day of the fatal incident. Modig was handed over to the Swedish Embassy in Havana on July 30 after presenting himself to Cuban and international journalists at two press conferences organized by the Cuban authorities, expressing regret over the illegal political activity. At the press conference, he had no answer to the question of how long he would be prevented from returning home. He was allowed to leave Cuba on July 31st.

After the sentencing

Immediately after Carromero's conviction, negotiations began between the Cuban and Spanish governments to ensure that the Spaniard could return to his home country as soon as possible. The first possible option was expulsion, according to which Carromero would have left Cuba with a temporary re-entry ban, but as a free man. Apart from the very unlikely possibility of a pardon, this variant was favored by the Spanish government, especially since another convicted Spaniard was expelled from Cuba that same year. The second option was an agreement that had existed between the two countries since 1998, which provides for the transfer of convicted criminals to their home country to serve their remaining sentence there. In mid-November 2012, the Cuban government made public its readiness to let Carromero serve the rest of his sentence in Spain on the blog called "Yohandry Fontana". She reminded the Cuban authorities that the opportunity had not been taken to accuse the Spaniard of his political activities during his trip, which was declared tourist, and to sentence him to up to twenty years in prison. In mid-December 2012, the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz announced that, as a result of negotiations between the Spanish and Cuban governments, it had been agreed that Carromero would be transferred to Spain to continue serving his sentence in his home country. The Cuban government then confirmed its consent. Representatives of the Spanish People's Party emphasized the fact that the Spanish government had given no consideration for the transfer of Carromero. Rather, his return was owed to a "diplomatic success". On the sidelines of the CELAC - EU summit in Santiago de Chile , the Spanish Foreign Minister García-Margallo thanked his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla personally for the successfully negotiated transfer of Carromero to Spain at the end of January 2013 . At the end of February 2013, García-Margallo said in the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament that the Cuban government had demanded in the negotiations on Carromero that Spain should campaign for the abolition of the "common position" of the EU states on Cuba, which has been in effect since 1996, which promotes closer cooperation depends on advances in the human rights situation on the island. However, the Spanish government refused this request. In the same interview, he rejected critical questions about the doubts expressed by the Payá's relatives about the official Cuban account of the circumstances of death, citing the official recognition of the legitimacy of Carromero's conviction, as well as the demand for an independent investigation. He left unanswered the question whether the Spanish government shares the accident version and accused the opposition of seriously jeopardizing the ongoing negotiations of the Spanish diplomacy with "unfounded" demands for the repatriation of four other Spaniards imprisoned in Cuba. In response to the version of the incident published a few days later by Carromero and the constraints associated with his imprisonment, García-Margallo stated on March 7, 2013 that if Carromero had evidence that spoke against the accident version, he should take it to the judiciary turn. In any case, the Spanish government is not in possession of evidence that speaks against the version contained in the official documents, which, with the assistance of Carromero, served as the basis for his return to Spain agreed with Cuba.

Reports on conditions for Carromero's exit

Despite official statements from the Spanish side, there have been various reports of commitments allegedly made as part of Carromero's agreed departure. It was claimed several times that the Cuban government had been assured that even after his return to Spain, Carromero would not comment on the open questions of the events on July 22nd. The Spanish news portal Zoom News reported, citing unnamed participants in the Cuban-Spanish negotiations, the assured silence, which also included Carromero's family and the members of the People's Party who were informed as recipients of the first SMS, was the most important condition on the Cuban side. In addition, Spain paid an amount of three million dollars. According to a similar representation of the news portal Neo Club Press - also with reference to unidentified sources - the negotiations with the essential result of a "pact of silence" were not exclusively about Carromero, but the Spanish side was additionally with references to possible expropriations at the expense of the People's Party related major Spanish investors in Cuba have been put under considerable pressure. Ofelia Acevedo, Oswaldo Payas's widow, also expressed her conviction shortly before Carromero's departure that the Cuban government had agreed with the Spanish government and Carromero that it would remain silent and that of all parties involved as a condition.

Return to Spain

On December 29, 2012, Carromero was transferred from Havana to Madrid. He traveled on a scheduled flight under the supervision of Spanish police officers together with another Spanish prisoner convicted in Cuba, who, unlike Carromero, was in custody for a drug offense and had already been in prison for 4 of 18 years. Legal experts confirmed in the media that Carromero would have been sentenced to a suspended sentence of no more than one to two years for the same offense had he had proven negligence, given no previous convictions in Spain . Many commentators suspected that Carromero had received preferential treatment from the Spanish authorities because of his prominent party affiliation. In an editorial published on January 2, 2013, the editorial staff of the daily El País criticized the government's intensive efforts to repatriate Carromero, who had “amassed 45 traffic fines” before his trip to Cuba, as “unequal treatment at the expense of 2,240 Spaniards who were abroad Serving prison sentences ”, but without taking into account the special return agreement with Cuba or the circumstances of the unintentional crime.

Initially, Carromero was placed in a solitary cell in Segovia prison near Madrid. On January 12, he was allowed to prison for the first time for the duration of the weekend furlough leave. Then, on application, he was granted open prison in accordance with the Spanish penal code, in which he can pursue his gainful work during the day and only has to spend the nights between Monday and Friday in a rehabilitation facility. At the time of his transfer, Carromero already fulfilled all the criteria for open execution: he had a job and a permanent place of residence (the two integration criteria), and he also fulfilled the five judicial criteria: no danger to the public , no previous convictions, no unfulfilled property claims, no objection from a victim and no criminal offense. The Spanish Attorney General expressly confirmed the correctness of the granting of open execution. The domestic political spokesman for the opposition PSOE in parliament, on the other hand, announced that the director of the penal administration would be called in to explain the handling of the Carromero case to the parliamentarians. In mid-February 2013, the management of his rehabilitation center approved the installation of a so-called electronic ankle cuff with which his whereabouts can be continuously determined and he no longer has to spend the nights in a prescribed location. After obtaining a special permit from the Spanish authorities, Carromero left Spain for a week in October 2014 to meet with congressmen in the USA and to present his book on his experiences in Cuba at a press conference.

Positions within the Spanish People's Party

Carromero's mother, who was the first to visit him in Segovia on December 29, 2012, was accompanied to the prison by Esperanza Aguirre , who expressed her full support. Aguirre then visited Carromero on January 1st and announced that he would speak out as soon as he had "a clear head", as he was doing very badly due to his experiences in Cuba. Aguirre is the only prominent representative of the PP who, since Carromero's return to Spain, has campaigned for both his pardon and an international investigation into the deaths of Payas and Ceperos. However, Aguirre's advances were not accepted by the PP-led government. At Aguirre's side, Carromero took part in a public event on January 22 for the first time since his return: a memorial service for a politician of the People's Party who was murdered by the Basque terrorist organization ETA in 1995.

Nuevas Generaciones chairman Casado told the assembled journalists after his visit to Segovia prison on January 3rd that Carromero would have been “acquitted” in any democracy. Carromero himself continues to insist on his innocence. Carromero is still "quite confused" because of what she experienced in Cuba. When asked, Casado said that it was not him, but Carromero alone who was called to answer the question of whether the incidents of July 22, 2012 were a political case as soon as he had "put his memories in order".

Relations with the Payá family

After asking NNGG chairman Casado for the telephone number of Carlos Payas during his visit to Segovia prison, Carromero Payá called on January 7th to express his condolences for the first time to the relatives of the Cuban politician who was killed on July 22nd what the Cuban authorities had prevented him from there. He thanked the family for their solidarity towards him. Casado had initially announced to Payá that Carromero would meet him personally for a meeting, which however did not take place. Carlos Payá reported to journalists on the phone call that lasted only a few minutes that, in his opinion, Carromero was “very touched by the Cuban prison”, which is why he wished the returnees a speedy recovery so that he could “organize his thoughts”. The Payá family never urged him to testify about what had happened, but rather hope that he will first recover completely. For them, Carromero is "a hero" because he has selflessly placed himself in the service of the Cuban Democrats. In addition, he should not be seen as a perpetrator, but as a victim. In a press conference on February 28, 2013 in Madrid, the daughter Oswaldo Payas, who had traveled from Havana two weeks earlier, reported that Carromero had told her in a personal conversation on February 16 that the car he was driving had been rammed from behind and knocked off the road be.

Driving license withdrawal in Spain

Due to two rule violations that have taken place since 2009 due to endangering traffic safety , Carromero's driving license was revoked in August 2012 - which only came into effect in October 2012. The administrative procedure for the withdrawal of the driver's license was initiated in April 2012. Firstly, it was measured at 145 km / h in August 2009 on the A3 motorway , which has a general maximum speed of 120 km / h. According to a special rule that applied in Spain at the time and was only abolished in 2011, Carromero, as a driver who had not had his driving license for five years, was allowed to drive a maximum of 90 km / h. In addition to the deduction of six of his total of eight points available as starting credit, which is relevant for the later withdrawal of his driver's license, he had to pay a fine of 520 euros. Second, he was caught talking on the phone at the wheel with a mobile phone without a speakerphone, for which his remaining points were deducted, which led to the initiation of the administrative procedure for the withdrawal of his driver's license.

Dissemination of the allegation of the notorious traffic offender

Although there is no connection to the withdrawal of a driver's license, the vehicle registered in Carromero's name in Madrid had over 40 offenses due to parking wrongly before the trip to Cuba. In addition to Carromero himself, these parking tickets could also have been issued by people who also use his car, such as his mother, sisters or friends. In numerous media reports after the death of the two Cubans and before the subsequent criminal trial against Carromero in Bayamo, false information was spread that he had driven a car in Cuba without a valid driver's license. It was also reported by leading media journalists, including El País and El Mundo , that he had lost the points on his driver's license by driving at excessive speed several times. Mentioning “over 40 traffic offenses” without an explanatory description as fines for wrongly parking also served to paint a picture of an irresponsible motorist. The misleading formulation that Carromero "has accumulated 45 traffic fines since 2009" was repeated by El País in an editorial on behalf of the editors at the beginning of January 2013 as an argument to criticize the government's intensive efforts for his quick return to Spain. At the beginning of August 2012, shortly after the first article appeared in Spanish media, Carromero's mother wrote an open letter to the public in which she demanded restraint and responsibility in dealing with her son in the media and made it clear that her son still had a valid driver's license and that he was an honest and responsible person who was never investigated in any criminal case. Due to the prevailing reporting, however, the unsubstantiated thesis of the “daring death driver”, which was represented by the Cuban authorities in the media and in court proceedings, and also dominated the critical comments in the media and social networks in Spain even after Carromero's return to Madrid, became independent. Nuevas Generaciones chairman Casado reported on a visit to Segovia prison on January 3, 2013, that Carromero wanted an investigation to try to find out who the media reports that portrayed him as a dangerous driver were from. The publications would have hurt him very much in Cuba, as the Cuban authorities changed their attitude towards him after receiving the distorted information and they had exploited the reports to present him as a reckless and irresponsible driver.

Publications

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b El cachorro enjaulado , in: ABC of January 9, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ a b c Pablo Casado: "No hubieran llegado tan lejos contra Carromero si medios irresponsables no hubieran publicado el falso listado de multas" , in: Periodista Digital of January 3, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
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  6. ↑ Mark Wieting: La nueva vida de Ángel Carromero , in: Vanity Fair of July 22, 2013 (Spanish)
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  8. ↑ Ángel Carromero's Twitter account , accessed March 17, 2013 (Spanish)
  9. ↑ a b Profile page of Ángel Carromero on LinkedIn , accessed June 1, 2012
  10. ↑ a b Ángel Carromero on the crash that killed Cuba's Oswaldo Payá , in: Washington Post of March 5, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2013 (English)
  11. ↑ Carromero, un 'cachorro' del PP defensor de la libertad en Cuba y en Siria ( Memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: El Confidencial of August 4, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013 (Spanish)
  12. ↑ a b Should public money be spent on political aides? in: El País in English from January 23, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (English)
  13. ↑ a b A la sombra de Carromero: asesores a dedo con sueldo público , in: El País from January 29, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  14. ^ Trabajadores del Ayuntamiento de Madrid protestan por el reingreso de Ángel Carromero como asesor , in: Público of January 17, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  15. ↑ Pitos y abucheos para Ángel Carromero en la entrada de su viejo centro de trabajo , in: Vozpópuli from January 25, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  16. ↑ Carromero, un defensor de la libertad en el País Vasco y Cuba , in: ABC of August 2, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  17. ↑ a b c Conferencia de prensa de Jens Aron Modig , video published by Cubadebate on YouTube from July 31, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  18. ↑ Aron Modig: Entendí la gravedad del caso cuando hablé con la policía cubana , in: Café Fuerte from July 31, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013 (Spanish)
  19. ^ Pablo Casado: “Angel Carromero no fue a Cuba enviado por el PP” , in: ABC of December 29, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013 (Spanish)
  20. ↑ Spain Says It Was Unaware of Carromero's Activities in Cuba , in: Havana Times of November 21, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (English)
  21. ↑ a b c d Palabras leídas en rueda de prensa por Rosa María Payá Acevedo , statement of the daughter Payá's read out at a press conference, on the MCL website of August 7, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  22. ↑ Cuba prueba que Carromero y Modig se involucraron en actividades ilegales , video published by Cubadebate on YouTube from August 3, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  23. ↑ The Granma newspaper reveals subversive actions against Cuba ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 618 KB), from July 31, 2012 on the website of the Kuba-BRD eV friendship society , accessed on January 28, 2013
  24. ↑ Dos personas fallecen en lamentable accidente de tránsito en la provincia de Granma ( Memento of July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Granma of July 23, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013 (Spanish)
  25. ↑ Nota oficial del Ministerio del Interior sobre accidente del pasado 22 de julio (+ Infografía y Video) , in: Cubadebate of July 27, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  26. ↑ Texto de conferencia de prensa de Rosa Payá 28 de febrero FHC , text of the press conference on February 28, 2013 (with photos from the Swedish SMS), on the MCL website, accessed on March 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  27. ↑ Los Castro arrancan a Carromero la confesión de que Payá murió en 'accidente' , in: Periodista Latino of July 30, 2012, accessed on January 31, 2013 (Spanish)
  28. ↑ Carromero confirmala versión del accidente de tráfico en el que murió Oswaldo Payá , in: RTVE Notícias of July 30, 2012, accessed on January 31, 2013 (Spanish)
  29. ^ A b Andrea Rodriguez: Survivors: No 2nd car in deadly Cuba car crash , in: Yahoo! news from July 30, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013
  30. ↑ Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas: Testimonios sobre el accidente , video published by Cubadebate on YouTube from July 30, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  31. ↑ Nick Miroff: In Cuba, a political mission gone wrong , in: Global Post from August 9, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013 (English)
  32. ↑ 'This is how Cubans are treated everyday': Modig , in: The Local from August 10, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (English)
  33. ↑ El sueco Modig no recuerda nada del accidente que costó la vida a Payá ( Memento of August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: La Gaceta of August 20, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  34. ↑ a b Knut Henkel: Four years for the Spanish death driver , in: taz.de of October 16, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  35. ↑ Modig defiende desde Suecia la inocencia de Carromero ( Memento from December 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: La Gaceta from October 15, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  36. ↑ Interview with Rosa Maria Payá and Aron Modig , translation from Swedish to Cuba Democracia y Vida of March 5, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2013 (English)
  37. ↑ Urgente! Oswaldo Payá desaparecido luego de ser embestido automóvil en que viajaba , on the official website of the MCL from July 22, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  38. ↑ Tobias Buyer: The mysterious death of opposition leader Payá , in: Welt Online from August 1, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  39. ↑ Viuda de Oswaldo Payá revela detalles de la tragedia , in: Nuevo Herald of July 26, 2012, accessed on January 26, 2013 (Spanish)
  40. ↑ a b c La viuda de Payá no participará en el juicio contra Carromero, in: El Mundo from August 16, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2013 (Spanish)
  41. ↑ 'No esperamos nada del juicio a Carromero' ( Memento from January 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: La Gaceta from October 3, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  42. ↑ Portavoz del MCL denuncia silencio de España y Suecia en caso Payá , in: Martí Notícias of August 29, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  43. ↑ Jackson Diehl: The Oswaldo Payá mystery continues , in: Washington Post, September 16, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013
  44. ↑ a b Carlos Payá: "El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores español es quien decidió la auto inculpación de Ángel Carromero" , in: Periodista Digital of December 27, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  45. ↑ Nuevas Generaciones defendió que Oswaldo Payá fue “atacado y asesinado” ( Memento of January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: La Gaceta of January 23, 2013, accessed on January 28, 2013 (Spanish)
  46. ↑ Circunstancias extrañas en torno a muerte de Payá Sardiñas , YouTube video by Martí Noticias from July 24, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  47. ↑ a b Carlos Payá: Mi hermano Oswaldo , on the official website of the MCL from August 2, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2013 (Spanish)
  48. ↑ a b "Otros dirigentes del PP también han sido amenazados en Cuba" , in: La Razón of December 30, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  49. ↑ Paco Gámez: 'El accidente de Oswaldo Payá es un clásico de los servicios de inteligencia' ( Memento of January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: Onda Cero of January 9, 2013, accessed on February 6, 2013 (Spanish)
  50. ↑ a b Knut Henkel: New allegations against the authorities , in: taz.de of August 4, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  51. ↑ Widow raises allegations against Cuba: Doubts about Payá's accident , in: n-tv.de of July 29, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  52. ↑ Viuda de Payá insiste en hablar con Carromero , in: Martí Notícias of December 20, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  53. ↑ Romney Joins Call for Transparent Investigation into Oswaldo Paya's Death ( Memento from July 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Fox News Latino from July 23, 2012, accessed on January 28, 2013 (English)
  54. ^ Arnold Vaatz: Independent investigation into the circumstances of the death of Oswaldo Paya Sardinas urgently required , press release of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group of July 23, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013
  55. ↑ Elizardo Sánchez: 'Los hechos se ajustan a un lamentable accidente' , in: Diario de Cuba of July 23, 2012, accessed on January 26, 2013 (Spanish)
  56. ↑ Yoani Sánchez: Cuba saca partido del 'caso Payá' , in: El País of July 31, 2012, accessed on January 28, 2013 (Spanish)
  57. ↑ La familia Payá sigue sin creer la versión oficial pese al vídeo , in: ABC of July 31, 2012, accessed on January 31, 2013 (Spanish)
  58. ↑ Esperanza Aguirre se pronuncia sobre la indefensión y la maquinación de Cuba para con Carromero , excerpt from the TV program El gato al agua (from 1:27 am) on YouTube on January 4, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  59. ↑ Amigo de Carromero: Está 'intentando recordar' lo ocurrido el día que murió Payá , in: Diario de Cuba of January 3, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  60. ^ Gonzalo Suárez: Carromero recupera la memoria. ¿Hablará? , in: El Mundo from January 6, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  61. ↑ "Ojalá hubiera tenido al Ministerio de Exteriores de hoy", lamenta Sebastián Martínez , in: Europa Press of October 16, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  62. ^ "Carromero es víctima de torturas psicológicas" , in: ABC August 2, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  63. ↑ Entramos en 100 y Aldabó, la peor cárcel de Cuba donde está Ángel Carromero , in: Teinteresa.es of August 2, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  64. ↑ Sebastián Martínez Ferraté: "Solo le puedo decir a Carromero que luche y tenga esperanza" , in: Antena3.com of August 7, 2012, accessed on February 6, 2013 (Spanish)
  65. ↑ a b c d e f Jose María Viñals, abogado de Ángel Carromero: “En España no lo habrían condenado” ( Memento of January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: Diario Jurídico of December 30, 2012, accessed on 22. January 2013 (Spanish)
  66. ↑ Spaniards in Cuba sentenced to four years imprisonment for manslaughter , in: Welt Online of October 15, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  67. ↑ Knut Henkel: Blogger mistreated in custody , in: taz.de of October 7, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  68. ↑ Yoani Sánchez: Surprising Sentence for Angel Carromero for the Deaths of Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero in a Car Crash , in: Huffington Post of October 16, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (English)
  69. ↑ Carromero se declara inocente: "La muerte de Payá fue un accidente" , in: Público of October 5, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  70. ↑ Carromero expresa su pena por el "desafortunado" accidente , in: ABC on 5 October 2012, accessed on 29 January 2013 (Spanish)
  71. ↑ a b Carlos Payá: "Carromero es un héroe" , in: Periodista Digital from January 9, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  72. ^ Sandro Benini: A car accident with diplomatic consequences , in: Tages-Anzeiger from August 18, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013
  73. ↑ Carromero permanece en el centro de detención '100 y Aldabó' en La Habana , in: Europa Press of October 16, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  74. ↑ El Gobierno agradece la "apertura" de Cuba y dice que La Habana "considerará" la vuelta de Carromero a España , in: El Huffington Post of November 16, 2012, accessed on January 31, 2013 (Spanish)
  75. ↑ Fernando Ravsberg: A Public Trial in a Quiet Town , in: Havana Times of October 11, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (English)
  76. ↑ Carlos Payá: "El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores español es quien decidió la auto inculpación de Ángel Carromero" , in: Periodista Digital of December 27, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  77. ↑ Estocolmo considera injustificado que La Habana retenga a Aron Modig , in: Diario de Cuba of July 28, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  78. ↑ Swede involved in dissident's death allowed to leave Cuba , in: Ahram Online from July 31, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (English)
  79. ↑ a b Gobierno cubano estaría dispuesto a que Carromero cumpla su pena en España, según blog oficialista , in: Cuba Encuentro of November 19, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  80. ↑ A politician imprisoned in Cuba is allowed to serve imprisonment in Spain , in: Focus Online from December 15, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2013
  81. ↑ ¿Qué dirá Carromero al salir de la cárcel? , in: Havana Times, January 5, 2013, accessed January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  82. ↑ PP: El regreso de Carromero 'no ha tenido contraprestación ninguna y se debe a un éxito diplomático' , in: Diario de Cuba of December 30, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  83. ↑ El canciller español trata con Bruno Rodríguez la deuda pendiente de Cuba , in: ElDiario.es of January 27, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  84. ↑ Margallo: El traslado de Carromero se hizo "sin contraprestación política" , in: Europa Press of February 28, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2013 (Spanish)
  85. ↑ Margallo asegura que no hubo contraprestación política en el caso Carromero , in: El Diario from February 28, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  86. ↑ Margallo aconseja a Carromero que acuda a los tribunales , in: Europa Press of March 7, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2013 (Spanish)
  87. ↑ El retorno de Carromero cuesta tres millones de dólares y la promesa de que no se pronunciará sobre el accidente ( Memento of January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: Zoom News of December 29, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 ( Spanish)
  88. ↑ Denuncian pacto de silencio entre Castro, Carromero y el PP ( Memento of December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Neo Club Press of December 15, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  89. ↑ Ofelia Acevedo: "Creo que nunca podrá contar lo que realmente ocurrió ese día" , in: La Razón of December 26, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  90. ↑ Carromero llega a España para cumplir su condena , in: ABC of December 29, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  91. ↑ a b Errar el tiro , in: El País from January 2, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  92. ↑ Pablo Casado se entrevista, en Exclusiva, con Ángel Carromero en la cárcel de Segovia , excerpt from the TV program El gato al agua (from 06:40) on YouTube on January 3, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  93. ↑ El fiscal general considera que Carromero reúne las condiciones para la concesión del tercer grado , in: RTVE Notícias of January 9, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2013 (Spanish)
  94. ↑ La Junta de Tratamiento estudia esta mañana el tercer grado para Carromero , in: El País of January 10, 2013, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  95. ↑ Carromero ya puede dormir en casa , in: La Razón from February 14, 2013, accessed on February 15, 2013 (Spanish)
  96. ↑ Carromero viaja a Miami para reunirse congresistas y senadores de EEUU, in: La Vanguardia of October 9, 2014, accessed on December 22, 2014 (Spanish)
  97. ↑ Aguirre a Carromero: 'No eres un delincuente' ( Memento of January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: La Gaceta of December 29, 2012, accessed on January 29, 2013 (Spanish)
  98. ↑ Carromero le cuenta a Aguirre su "tortura": pasaba 15 días en la celda ( Memento from February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: El Semanal Digital from January 1, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  99. ↑ Aguirre ve "sorprendente" que nadie del PP conociera las cuentas de Bárcenas , in: ABC of January 25, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2013 (Spanish)
  100. ↑ Aguirre pide una "investigación internacional" sobre la muerte de Payá , in: La Razón from January 1, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2013 (Spanish)
  101. ↑ Silencio del Gobierno ante las críticas de Aguirre , in: ABC of January 3, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  102. ↑ Aguirre asiste con Carromero a un homenaje a Gregorio Ordóñez , in: Europa Press of January 22, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  103. ↑ a b Carromero quiere que se investigue quién filtró a la prensa la existencia de sus multas , in: ABC of January 3, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2013 (Spanish)
  104. ↑ Esperanza Aguirre se pronuncia sobre la indefensión y la maquinación de Cuba para con Carromero , excerpt from the television program El gato al agua (from 03:32) on YouTube on January 3, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
  105. ↑ Carromero llamó por teléfono ayer al hermano de Payá para expresarle sus condolencias , in: ABC of January 9, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2013 (Spanish)
  106. ↑ Carromero telefoneó desde la cárcel al hermano de Payá , in: Diario de Cuba of January 9, 2013, accessed on January 31, 2013 (Spanish)
  107. ↑ Carmen Muñoz: Carromero confirma a la hija de Oswaldo Payá que un vehículo les embistió , in: ABC of February 28, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2013 (Spanish)
  108. ↑ Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (PDF, 108 KB) of August 9, 2012, accessed on February 6, 2013 (Spanish)
  109. ↑ José María Viñals: "Carromero ha reconstruido los hechos conmigo pero me ha pedido que no los desvele" , in: El Confidencial of January 11, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2013 (Spanish)
  110. ↑ Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (PDF, 4.24 MB) from May 18, 2012, here: Disposiciones y Anuncios del Estado: Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico p. 210f., Accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  111. ↑ a b c Luis Ayllón: Carromero quiere que se investigue quién filtró a la prensa la existencia de sus multas , in: ABC of January 3, 2013, accessed on January 22, 2013 (Spanish)
  112. ↑ Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico de Cuenca: Edicto Resoluciones (PDF; 159 kB), in: Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Cuenca from January 2010, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  113. ↑ BOCM núm 91 del 17 de april de 2010 (contains 19 fines Carromero for illegal parking) ( Memento of August 2, 2012 on WebCite ) (PDF; 2.5 MB), BOCM núm 97 del 24 de april de 2010 (contains 8 fines Carromeros for illegal parking) ( Memento from August 2, 2012 on WebCite ) (PDF; 3.5 MB), BOCM núm 85 del 10 de abril de 2010 (contains 3 fines Carromeros for illegal parking) ( Memento from August 2, 2012 on WebCite ) (Spanish; PDF; 1.4 MB)
  114. ↑ Ángel Carromero, sin carnet de conducir desde mayo y multado por exceso de velocidad , in: La Voz Libre of August 2, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  115. ↑ Carromero viajó a Cuba sin puntos en el carné de conducir , in: El País of August 3, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  116. ↑ a b Ángel Carromero conducía sin puntos en el carné el coche en el que murió Oswaldo Payá , in: El Mundo of August 2, 2012, accessed on February 7, 2013 (Spanish)
  117. ↑ Carta abierta de la madre de Carromero: "Es una persona honesta y responsable" , in: ABC of August 3, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2013 (Spanish)
  118. ↑ Pablo Casado se entrevista, en Exclusiva, con Ángel Carromero en la cárcel de Segovia , excerpt from the television program El gato al agua (from 10:39) on YouTube on January 3, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2013 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Carromero, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carromero Barrios, Ángel Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid