Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra

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Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra

Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra (born September 27, 1947 in Daimiel , Ciudad Real ) is a Spanish politician ( PP ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 . Díaz de Mera was the head of the Spanish police force during the train attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004.

Political career

Díaz de Mera was a member of the Spanish Senate from 1989 to 1993 and 1996 to 2002 and a member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies from 1993 to 1996 . 1999 to 2002 he was also mayor of Ávila .

From July 2002 to March 2004 he was Director General of the Spanish National Police and in this capacity he led the first investigations into the Madrid train attacks of March 11, 2004, following the allegations made by the PP-led government under José María Aznar that the Basque terrorist organization was a perpetrator ETA did not object, although the results of the investigation pointed to the Islamist organization Al-Qaeda early on . After the PP was elected from the government a few days after the attacks in the Spanish parliamentary elections , Díaz de Mera lost his post.

In the European elections in July 2004 he was instead elected to the European Parliament for the PP . Here he belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (EPP, until 2009 EPP-ED ) and is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

In the course of the trial before the highest Spanish criminal court against the alleged perpetrators of the attacks of March 11, 2004, a scandal broke out in early 2007 when Díaz de Mera, who was interviewed as a witness, stated that a policeman he knew had seen a document containing connections between ETA and Al-Qaeda evidence; however, this document was later destroyed in order to cover up the links between ETA and the attacks in the interests of the new Spanish government under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ( PSOE ). When the court asked for the name of this policeman, Díaz de Mera refused to answer. The court thereupon applied to the European Parliament for the waiver of Díaz de Mera's immunity, fined him 1000 euros and opened another case against him for failure to comply with the court's orders. Díaz de Mera then gave the names of two police officers, who in turn denied the existence of such a document. On November 7, 2007, the case against Díaz de Mera was finally dropped.

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