The judge who called Sánchez a “psychopath” presented himself as a magistrate on the social network X despite denying it before the Judiciary

Manuel Ruiz de Lara, in an image of the Illustrious College of Lawyers of Madrid.

This Wednesday, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) corrected its disciplinary authority, Ricardo Conde, and ordered him to open a file against Judge Manuel Ruiz de Lara for having called the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, a “psychopath without ethical limits.” , and for other attacks directed at ministers, the State Attorney General or progressive magistrates of the Constitutional Court. Conde’s main argument for archiving the investigation was that, since the As a result, the author made known his status as a judge. Ruiz de Lara, in the allegations sent to the Council, distances himself from that account and assures that, in any case, it did not appear that its author was a judge. However, the files saved on the internet confirm both Ruiz de Lara’s links to the account and that its author did present herself as a “magistrate.”

Profile of the @ManuelRuizdelar account in X in which his status as “magistrate” appears.

The author vetoed public access to the account that same day, which prevented the free reading of those tweets ever since. The account was later deleted. Among the messages collected by this newspaper there was also one addressed to the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, whom he referred to as “the personification of dishonor in the race.” “Like Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Margarita Robles, Pilar Llop, the ‘nonsense podemita’ prefer, dishonoring the toga, to drag themselves in indignity for the crumbs of a position.” On November 22, the Attorney General’s Office reported him to the disciplinary authority of the CGPJ, which opened an investigation.

Allegations

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That is what Ruiz de Lara clings to in the allegations he presented to the CGPJ. “In the document from the Public Prosecutor’s Office it is pointed out that in a Twitter profile (now X), my name appears next to the profession of Magistrate. However, this statement is not true. And it can be verified easily by viewing the photo provided by the Prosecutor’s Office, where the word Magistrate does not appear. Only my incomplete name appears,” says the judge in the letter sent to the CGPJ. The versions of that profile stored on the internet show that that description did appear.

The absence of the word “magistrate” in the photographs sent by the Attorney General’s Office is also the main argument of the CGPJ disciplinary authority to propose the archiving of the investigation. According to Conde, even if it were true that the judge wrote the messages published in that account (a claim that he denies), “it is not possible to determine whether he expressly invoked his judicial status.” The deletion of the @ManuelRuizdelar account “makes such a determination impossible,” admits the so-called promoter of the disciplinary action, who considers that “there is not enough data to show” that Ruiz de Lara invoked his status as a judge when he spread those messages.

In his allegations, the magistrate even disassociates himself from that account, despite the fact that there are numerous traces on the Internet in which he is identified with that account. Many of these links are set out in a report sent to the promoter by the CGPJ communications office. This document highlights that there are still dozens of publications in Thus, for example, Ruiz de Lara appears cited and identified with the address of legal disclosure”, which did not win. The judge has opened another account this month in which he repeats part of that description (IMPERTURBABLE IDEALIST. Author of the novels “Patria Judicial” and “Patria Olvidada”. Gastronomic critic in The debate) and omits the word “magistrate.”