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Prosecutor’s Office investigates almost 200 nursing homes with 87 Madrid files

Criminal investigations opened by the Prosecutor’s Office for possible crimes in nursing homes during the covid-19 pandemic they are already a total 186 according to the last update of the Prosecutor’s Office, which includes the existence of 21 procedures already under investigation in different Spanish criminal courts, the opening of 11 new tax investigation proceedings and the filing of two of those already started with respect to the previous week.

Madrid continues to lead possible cases of criminal conduct at these centers, with a total of 87 files pending and 6 cases that are already being heard in the courts.

Also according to the latest statistics provided by the State Attorney General there are five communities that continue without having any open matter for the management of their nursing homes, which are Asturias, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Navarra and the Basque Country.

Regarding the situation in Madrid, the largest number of files are processed by the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, a total of 61, followed by 10 investigations carried out by the prosecutor of the Alcalá de Henares area, 7 by the prosecution of the area of Getafe-Leganés and 9 for the Móstoles-Fuenlabrada area. As for the already judicialized cases there are 66, which are carried by the investigative courts numbers 51, 12, 48, 42 of Madrid, number 1 of Navalcarnero and number 2 Alcobendas.

Second focus in Catalonia

Catalonia continues to be the second focus of research prosecutors in residences with a total of 32 cases, about twenty of them are still in the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office due to complaints from individuals, the Covid-19 affected Association in Spain, the Catalan Professional Association of Center Directors and Services for Dependency Care (ASCAD) and the communications made by the Civil Registry of Sant Boi de Llobregat about deaths in four specific residences.

The rest of the physical investigations in Catalonia They are carried out by the Prosecutor’s Offices in the areas of Granollers, Vilanova i la Geltrú-Gavá, Manresa-Igualada, Sabadell, Terrassa, Mataró and Tarragona. Regarding judicial procedures, in Catalonia cases are processed in the Investigating Court number 4 of Sabadell, and two opened in number 4 of Cendanyola del Vallés for alleged crimes of falsehood in an official document and omission of the duty of help.

In a third place they would find Castilla y León with 22 files pending and 4 ongoing criminal investigations in Albacete, Soria and Ávila Courts; and Castilla-La Mancha with 20 files and criminal investigations in two courts in Albacete, one in the capital and the other in La Roda.

By number of cases it follows Galicia with a total of 15 files pending and a matter already in the hands of the Cangas Court number 1 in relation to a residence; Extremadura with 5 files of investigation in process and a specific matter by virtue of the complaint of an individual who is already instructing the Court of Valencia of Alcántara (Cáceres) and Murcia, where the prosecution does not have any open file but three courts investigate and specific events occurred in these centers due to their possible criminal significance.

By cons, in Andalusia only one case is registered, initiated after the complaint lodged in April by an association regarding older people admitted to a residence in Cádiz, a matter that the chief prosecutor of the Jerez area is handling. The Autonomous Communities of Aragón, Baleares, La Rioja and Valencia.

Civilian follow-up proceedings

As for civil proceedings, which consist of monitoring the situation in the residences from the point of view of the rights of the residents, There are also around 200 issues pending, since a total of 194 are recorded according to the data provided by the Attorney General’s Office.

Respect Last week, four civil proceedings have been filed. (three in the Valencia Provincial Prosecutor’s Office and one in the Elche-Orihuela Area Prosecutor’s Office), as a result of the absence of situations of neglect have been verified, homelessness or irregularities in the residences being monitored.

By cons initiated seven new civil files for monitoring of the situation in certain residential establishments (Alcoy Area Prosecutors, Office of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, Getafe-Leganés Area Prosecutor’s Office, Cartagena Area Prosecutor’s Office, Office of the Autonomous Community of Navarra, and two of the Castellón Provincial Office of the Plana.

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