Overview
- Pablo Iglesias told the Audiencia Nacional he held Dina Bousselham’s memory card for about six months to spare her distress, calling his decision “paternalistic,” and said he returned it after media began publishing material he recognized from the device.
- The presiding judge, Teresa Palacios, curtailed the defense’s attempt to argue that Iglesias manipulated the case for political gain, ruling the line of questioning outside the trial’s scope.
- Dina Bousselham testified that she recognized screenshots published in the press as hers, said two photos had only been on her phone, and attributed earlier contradictions about the card’s condition and its recovery through Iglesias to nerves and a lapse.
- José Manuel Villarejo is the lone defendant after two former Interviú editors admitted handing him the card and were removed from the proceedings following apologies accepted by the private accusers.
- Journalists from Okdiario said they received Podemos chat material in an anonymous envelope, an El Confidencial reporter invoked source confidentiality, and the judge voiced skepticism about a claim that the card surfaced after being left in a hotel.