The judge of the National Court investigating Tsunami Democràtic has agreed this Monday to take a statement from the wife of the French citizen who died during the blockade of the El Prat airport as a protest against the sentences of the process, as well as to offer her the possibility of appearing as a victim.

That death is one of the elements that Judge Manuel García-Castellón has taken into account to assess the seriousness of the Tsunami actions and support their terrorist nature.. The instructor highlights that the forensic diagnosis of the cause of death – a heart attack – referred to a previous pathology, but also to the “circumstances” surrounding the death.. “Precisely, those circumstances were the collapse of the airport,” indicates the judge.

“The impact that [the situation at the Barcelona airport] had on the lives and integrity of people cannot be minimized, and it must be emphasized that within the framework of this action the death of a person occurred[…] The deceased His name was Jean Claude Scherzinger, he was 64 years old and of French nationality.

The deceased's own family has maintained in a conversation with Crónica that the circumstances were decisive for the death. «Of course yes, of course they influenced his heart condition, of course his death was because of that; the heat, the stress…. It is not the same to arrive by car, without nerves, as that way. Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't have happened,” says one of his daughters.

Air traffic

Last week, García-Castellón proposed to the Supreme Court that it take over the investigation in the presence of two authorized persons, one of them former president Carles Puigdemont.. In this Monday's order, he indicates that this step does not prevent him from continuing to carry out proceedings while the High Court resolves, the result of which, in any case, must be communicated to the Supreme Court.

The list of procedures ordered in this Monday's car is very extensive. Regarding the death, the judge issues a European Investigation Order (OEI) to the French authorities to locate the relatives of the deceased and offer them the possibility of appearing at the National Court. Also to convey to the French Justice “the need to obtain the statement of Francine Scherzinger [wife of the deceased, whom she accompanied in El Prat], to know, first-hand, what happened, and to obtain a witness statement about the circumstances of the death, with “all the data that may serve to clarify to what extent the events that took place on 10/14/2019 could have affected the fatal outcome.”

To this he adds requests for information about the incidents of that day to Service 112, to the airport and to the hospital that certified the death, from which he requests all the medical documentation.. The deceased had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter, since at that time the airport was blocked by the crowd gathered by Democratic Tsunami.

The order includes a description of the incidents and proposes measures to verify their impact on air traffic, particularly on the diversion of aircraft.. The magistrate requests data from the Spanish authorities competent in aviation (Enaire, dependent on the Ministry of Transport), but also from the European ones (Aesa, European Union Agency for Aviation Safety) and even from the NATO Combined Air Operations Center .

A third block of proceedings is focused on Tsunami's alleged attempts to influence the electoral result of the general elections held on November 10, 2019.. The instructor asks the investigators, the Barcelona Police, the City Council and the Generalitat for data on concentrations that occurred during the day of reflection and that could involve breaches of the Electoral Law. The judge also requests the Electoral Board to report on the actions carried out on November 9. “The report must include if any request was made to prevent these acts from taking place, to whom and the result,” says García-Castellón.