Major General Yago Fernández de Bobadilla, the soldier who headed the list of fifty chiefs and officers, all retired, and who signed the coup manifesto published last week through the Spanish Military Association (AME), denounces that it was manipulated and that the text he signed did not contain a call for the army to carry out a coup and overthrow President Pedro Sánchez.
In a letter to this newspaper, the general explains that the sponsor of the letter was not him, but Captain José Manuel Adán Carmona, who, a few years after starting his military career, gave up his military career and became a financial inspector, becoming deputy director general. of the Ministry of Economics. Coincidentally, this retired captain, who was part of the chat that talked about “shooting 26 million Spaniards” in 2020, was also the sponsor of the letters sent to the king this year asking him to do it could ignore its constitutional obligations.
The general explains that José Manuel Adán sent him “a version of the manifesto that did not contain this sentence in the last paragraph.” “This person later and without my permission and authorization changed the manifesto by adding the above sentence,” he denounces.
The added sentence read verbatim: “This group of former members of the armed forces, now retired and worried about the future of Spain, we call on those responsible for the defense of the constitutional order to dismiss the President of the Government and the Government. “Call for general elections.”
“I want to make it very clear,” the general says in his letter, “my resolute rejection of this sentence, which means nothing other than calling on the armed forces to carry out a coup, an issue that I strongly reject and.” This contradicts fully my democratic values, which are in line with those of the vast majority of Spanish society. They are values and principles that I have maintained as cornerstones during my years of service in the Air Force and that I maintain and defend today with the same or if possible greater vigor than when I wore the military uniform,” adds the general.
“It is one thing to publicly express our dissatisfaction with recent events and quite another when the author of this letter manipulated its contents without informing the signatories (at least to me) and thus created the impression “That the demand was for the dismissal of the President of the Government by the armed forces,” he concludes.
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Yago Fernández de Bobadilla – one of the three major generals who signed the manifesto – was, among other things, director of operations and technology for NETMA, the NATO agency that managed the Eurofighter and Tornado fighter jets. The Ministry of Defense declined to comment on the letter, claiming that all signatories had retired from the armed forces and that the military disciplinary code could not be applied to them. However, other sources maintained the need for the defense to change legislation to revoke the right to wear the uniform and expel from the Order of San Hermenegildo those whose behavior tarnishes the reputation of the armed forces.
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