Pablo Crespo: “En prisión, haber salido en televisión es un mérito”
En libertad condicional desde hace cinco meses, el exdirigente del PP gallego y ‘número dos’ de la trama Gürtel defiende la utilidad de los programas de reinserción
Pablo Crespo, a 66-year-old ex-businessman and former PP Galician director, has recently made two significant changes in his life. He was granted conditional freedom by the National Court at the end of March and resigned from his position last month. Now residing on the Mediterranean coast, Crespo recalls the day he was arrested in February 2009. "After the shock of the detention and spending three nights in the police cells, arriving in prison was almost a relief. Finally, I could take a shower!" he reminisces.
However, he also remembers that both he and the leader of the plot, Francisco Correa, struggled with the media attention surrounding their arrest. They spent their initial days at the Soto del Real Penitentiary Center (Madrid) overwhelmed by the media frenzy. Crespo humorously uses the phrase "estar a la sombra" or "to be in the shadows," explaining that as he has been in prison for over nine years in closed regime, he feels like he has been in the shadows.
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