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Three years in prison for Little Nicholas for posing as the King's emissary

2021-07-20T12:40:39.348Z


A court condemns the young man for a crime of usurpation of public functions and another of bribery Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, alias El Pequeno Nicolás , adds a new prison sentence. The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced the young man to three years in prison for posing as an emissary of King Felipe VI and the then Vice President of the Government Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría during a trip to Ribadeo (Lugo), where he had lunch with the president of the Alsa transport company, Jorge Co


Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, alias

El Pequeno Nicolás

, adds a new prison sentence. The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced the young man to three years in prison for posing as an emissary of King Felipe VI and the then Vice President of the Government Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría during a trip to Ribadeo (Lugo), where he had lunch with the president of the Alsa transport company, Jorge Cosmen, as confirmed by sources in his defense to EL PAÍS. The defendant, who sat on the bench in May for two of the four trials he had pending, was already sentenced on June 2 to another year and nine months in jail for falsifying his DNI so that a friend could appear on his behalf to the Selectivity exam.

According to this new resolution, advanced by the Efe agency and that the defense plans to appeal, section 17 of the Madrid Court considers Little Nicolás guilty of two crimes: one of usurpation of public functions, for which he is sentenced to nine months in jail; and another of active bribery, for which he dictates two years and three months of confinement in a penitentiary center. The Prosecutor's Office asked, instead, that he be sentenced to seven years in prison, but the judges have finally applied the mitigating measures "of psychic anomaly and undue delays", as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid. They have also ruled out the crime of documentary falsification, which was requested by the public prosecution.

The Ribadeo episode occurred in the summer of 2014, just two months after the proclamation of Felipe de Borbón as the new King of Spain. By then, according to the judges, Gómez Iglesias had already "entered certain relevant circles." Both politicians and the State Administration, as well as business. In this context, on August 13 of that year, a delegation of vehicles left Madrid's Paseo de la Habana for the municipality of Lugo. Inside, Little Nicolás was traveling, along with two local policemen, Jorge González and Carlos Pérez, who also sat on the bench accused of cooperating with the young man. The latter two, among other functions, were attributed with simulating surveillance and escort tasks to help with deception.But only González has been sentenced to three years in prison for passive bribery (the young man paid him "an unspecified amount", according to the court), while Pérez has been acquitted (as it has not been proven that "he had agreed to retribution") .

Days before the trip, El Pequeno Nicolás had contacted the municipal authorities to advise that a person whose identity he could not reveal "for reasons of national security" would attend. And he also told Jorge Cosmen that he would be accompanied by "someone very important from the Royal House," according to the businessman during the oral hearing.

The trial, held last May, put on the table the affairs of the young man in those days. Not only did the president of Alsa insist that Gómez Iglesias presented himself to him as a “link” between the Vice-presidency of the Government and the Royal Household —even, during lunch, he pretended that he received a call from Sáenz de Santamaría, according to Cosmen—, but that other witnesses pointed in the same direction. Both the head of the Municipal Police of Ribadeo and the president of the Nautical Club of the Galician town, where the restaurant that hosted the lunch is located, assured that days before they received calls from Little Nicolás where he identified himself in the same way. His deception took on such a dimension that several local police cars escorted the procession upon their arrival in Ribadeo.

However, Gómez Iglesias chose to throw balls during the oral hearing.

The young man denied that he was posing as an emissary of the King and the Government: "I wanted to appear to be an important person, never an authority [...] In fact, that position did not exist," he insisted before the court: "What I wanted was to throw myself the pisto with the businessman and make a pompous trip ", he said:" I wanted to resemble the elders and make me believe powerful, to seem an important person. "

But the State Attorney, who also accused, reproached him for his attitude: "He attributed the status of secretary of state, director general or deputy director, (...) because all the members of the Vice President's cabinet have that condition" .

"Personality disorder"

The court considers that the young man's maneuvers were conditioned by a “personality disorder” that he suffers, as the magistrates believe, that they attribute “narcissistic characteristics and immature features” to him. The magistrates also appreciate an "adaptive disorder with anxious depressive symptoms, a situation that conditioned the perception of reality, slightly limiting his cognitive faculties." "Only from the manifest immaturity typical of a few years and the existence of a certain disorder, which would generate a peculiar interpretation of reality, can an explanation be given to the action that Gómez Iglesias starred in carrying out the crime of usurpation of functions" , emphasizes the Provincial Court: “Because, on the one hand, he was condemned to be discovered. And, on the other,only from the point of view of the psychiatric disorder could its commission be explained ”.

In addition to the two sentences that he already accumulates for the two trials held in May, El Pequeno Nicolás has two other pending cases. The first, for the alleged fraud of a businessman from Toledo posing as an advisor to the Government, in which the public prosecutor requests for him six years in prison for crimes of usurpation of public functions, falsification of an official document and fraud. And the second, for obtaining data from the police and the Madrid City Council in exchange for favors, all with the intention of impersonating a high-ranking official in the State to offer help to third parties in exchange for money; where the Prosecutor's Office asks for nine years and nine months in prison.

Source: elparis

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