(31 Jan 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide, Judge Baltasar Garzon, approaches small table in middle of court
2. Wide, Judge Baltasar Garzon stands by a small table, pointing at it as if asking whether he is allow to sit down UPSOUND of the Judge saying "Yes", then Garzon sits down
3. Mid of private prosecutors
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"Your Honour, with your consent, I won't answer any of the questions of the private prosecution in view of the fact that it is not legitimised for being in this chamber doing the prosecution. Thank you."
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) President Judge (no name available):
"You are in your right."
6. Mid of Garzon taking notes, as the private prosecution asks questions which he has already said he won't answer
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, Defence lawyer:
"What are the characteristics of the complaints which you received in your court?"
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"They (the complaints) described a series of events which happened before and after the Civil War, where there were listed disappearances, illegal detentions, murders, extra-judicial executions, a whole series of facts which appeared to be of a criminal nature which were registered as such, as well as crimes against humanity such as genocide, illegal detentions, assassination etc."
9. Wide rear shot of court
10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"In any case, each and every one of them (the complaints) presented an appearance of a criminal nature."
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, Defence lawyer:
"Did the complaints describe episodes of forced disappearance of persons?"
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"Yes, that is the case."
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, Defence lawyer:
"Illegal assassination and burials?"
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"Yes, that is the case."
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, Defence lawyer:
"Did they (the complaints) describe the kidnapping of minors who remain disappeared to date?"
16. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"In Sept 2008, it was the first time there was mention of a case involving the disappearance of children, which then evolved with the formal complaint presented - if I do not remember wrongly - the 6th of November of 2008 by Ricard Vines, presenting the "libre irredentas" (sic), as well as a volume of testimonials making reference to multiple cases of lost children, what has then been referred to as the "lost children of Francos' regime." So, yes, there was (enough) reference to those events."
17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, Defence lawyer:
"Could the complaints which were presented during those two years present events which could be objectively compared to what was happening between 1933 and 1945 in other totalitarian regimes in Europe?"
18. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Judge Baltasar Garzon, defendant:
"Absolutely, yes. The whole mechanics (of it) was practically identical. There were descriptions of facts of systematic elimination, of a pre-conceived plan and detentions, disappearances of persons who, many of them, thousands and thousands of them, remain disappeared to date."
19. Wide of court
STORYLINE
The Spanish judge known for pioneering cross-border justice cases is being tried as a criminal defendant for allegedly overstepping his jurisdiction with a probe of right-wing atrocities during and after the Spanish civil war.
Prosecutors had already said he had committed no crime.
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