Garzón is victim of his craving for recognition

The Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has been on trial since Tuesday for perversion of justice. While other media say the trial is politically motivated the conservative daily ABC believes the charges are the result of the judge's excessive ambition: "Garzón is not the victim of a conspiracy against him but of his own rashness, ambition and tendency 'to cut corners', as the Anglo-Saxons say. Whether he deserves to be punished for this is for the second chamber of the Supreme Court to decide. Not the journalists nor the demonstrators nor even the legal experts who have leaped either to his defence or against him. Naturally this only applies if we live in a truly authentic constitutional state - something one may doubt sometimes, even if the doubt is quickly banished because it is a sickening thought."

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