"I Am Not an Abbess Mother, but an Investigating Judge": Calama's Strongest Phrases in the Interrogation of Zapatero
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During the almost three hours that last Wednesday the appearance of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero there were some moments of tension. None of them caused the former president or judge José Luis Calama to lose their ways, but the magistrate made it clear that it was him who was in charge of the interrogation. “I am not an abbess mother, but an investigating judge and I have to be incisive to clarify,” he warned when Zapatero showed his rejection t…
Incisive was the interrogation of Judge José Luis Calama to the former president of the government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, this Wednesday in the National High Court. So much so that the magistrate himself affirms it at a time of the statement, that it lasted about three hours. "He has to understand that I am not an abbess mother, but an investigating judge and I have to often be incisive to clarify," Calama told Zapatero, according to the…
Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appeared before the National Court prepared to deploy a strategy that usually works better in an interview than before a judge: a defiant tone, answering only what was necessary, feigning ignorance, and repeatedly stating that everything was perfectly explained in the contracts. The problem was that he wasn't facing a friendly journalist or a TVE pundit willing to change the subject, but rather …
The audio reveals a tense interrogation in which José Luis Calama stopped the former president several times: «Get used to it that when I speak you have to keep quiet»
The magistrate was both strict and lariandering when asking questions to the former president of the government, who questioned that he had charged almost 500,000 euros for "urbi et orbe reports".More information: The pulls of Judge Calama to Zapatero: from "I am not an abbess mother" to "must remain silent when I speak"
At the end of his statement, the former president tried to calm the waters: 'I hope I never had an undesirable tone'
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