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Journalists Bolster Defense in Spain Attorney General Trial as Parallel Influence Probe Advances

Testimony that reporters held the incriminating email earlier challenges the secrecy charge.

Overview

  • At the Supreme Court, multiple reporters testified that they possessed the confession email or its contents before it reached Álvaro García Ortiz and declined to reveal sources.
  • La Sexta’s Alfonso Pérez Medina documented knowing the confession details minutes before the email was sent to the prosecutor’s office, and elDiario.es editor José Precedo said he had the screenshot since March 6 while stressing García Ortiz was not his source.
  • El Mundo’s Esteban Urreiztieta described accessing a different fiscal email showing openness to a deal and rejected having promoted the debunked claim that a pact was blocked by ‘orders from above.’
  • In Madrid’s Court No. 9, prosecutor Ignacio Stampa ratified accusations against Leire Díez and Javier Pérez Dolset, filed a recording and notarial documents, and the judge withheld a longer audio from the parties pending Nov. 11 statements.
  • Isabel Díaz Ayuso urged judges, prosecutors and journalists to defend the rule of law and said the case is not hers, after her aide’s narrative about a blocked plea was shown by the case record to be false.