Interior places an escort on Beatriz Biedma from this Wednesday for security in front of the 'sewers'

For the first time, Judge Beatriz Biedma will attend the Badajoz Courthouse this Wednesday with an escort. The appearance of the magistrate in the open case to investigate the PSOE sewers in the National Court, her statement last week and her request for charges against former judge Sáenz de Tejada, the theoretical mastermind of the plot in Badajoz and his alleged contacts with drug trafficking clans to "eliminate her", has definitively led the Ministry of the Interior to place Biedma under surveillance 24 hours a day.

The decision is made by the department headed by Marlaska on the same day that Judge Santiago Pedraz has ordered the indictment of Sáenz de Tejada himself, a measure requested by Biedma. The former judge had been boasting on his YouTube channel in recent days that no court had summoned him so far, not even as a witness while he continued attacking the judge on his television channel.

As EL MUNDO published this past Saturday, alarm had grown in the judicial field, in the judge's colleagues and her own family environment due to the testimonies that were becoming known in recent days and that confirmed not only the monitoring of the judge and her daughters during the investigation period of the case of the very brother with the intention of coercing her but also the statements of the leader of the main drug clan in Badajoz, Cintia Rocho, who confirmed to the UCO agents that the Former judge Sáenz de Tejada and another person who said he was a lawyer contacted her and let her know the address of the judge's home. In addition, they told him that they had to do "physical harm" to him because he was "a pain in the ass and we have to eliminate him."

As this newspaper has been able to verify, in the Extremaduran judicial sphere there was enormous concern in the last hours for the safety of the magistrate, also taking into account that the episodes of violence between the families that try to control the drug market in Badajoz, and the settling of accounts, continue unabated in the capital of Badajoz. In fact, this past 'holiday long weekend' saw the last serious episode with a shooting in the middle of the street and in broad daylight. Two people riding a motorcycle shot a man, who was wounded in both legs, and was admitted to the ICU, where he underwent surgery.

The police investigation already points to two suspects, but no arrests have yet been made: "We cannot put a police officer at every door," said the Government delegate, José Luis Quintana, in statements made this Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, the city of Badajoz has accumulated eleven incidents of shootings, which have left seven people injured and almost a hundred burned vehicles in what points to an all-out war that has been going on for years between clans for the control of drug sales.

COMPLAINT

The Clean Hands union has filed a complaint this Friday in Badajoz against former magistrate Luis Sáenz de Tejada, a member of the PSOE sewers who tried to "eliminate" Judge Beatriz Biedma to end her investigation in the case of the very brother, for an alleged crime of "attempted murder" against her. "The accused has been preparing acts for the murder and their subsequent transmission to the executors, the Rocho clan," the letter states.