MADRID — Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who attained international fame for pursuing leaders like Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, was himself indicted Wednesday on charges of abusing his powers to investigate Spanish Civil War atrocities.
The charges against Mr. Garzón mark an extraordinary reversal for a prosecutor who has also spearheaded Spain’s fight against political corruption and terrorism perpetrated by ETA, the militant Basque separatist group.
Mr. Garzón was indicted Wednesday by a fellow judge, Luciano Varela, on charges of overreaching his authority in October 2008, when he launched a politically sensitive investigation into tens of thousands of deaths and disappearances during Spain’s Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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