Overview

• The court archived the filings and will not open a criminal investigation into Lieutenant General Francisco Javier Marcos Izquierdo.
• Judges ruled that the demand to mobilize all Armed Forces within a 500‑kilometer radius constituted an "absolutely disproportionate" duty.
• Allegations ranged from grossly negligent homicide to omission of aid and military dereliction, but the ruling found no criminal conduct.
• The case reached the Supreme Court after a Catarroja investigating court referred it due to the defendant's aforado status.
• The decision, authored by Military Chamber president Jacobo Barja de Quiroga, stresses that omission crimes require concrete facts and a defined legal duty, not conjecture.