Overview
- CIAF president Iñaki Barrón confirmed the rail was broken and said it will take months to determine why, with a detailed laboratory study to be commissioned.
- Judge Cristina Pastor of the Montoro court ordered the designation of three independent experts from the College of Civil Engineers to deliver a technical report on the causes.
- The Córdoba prosecutor’s office sent an anonymous manuscript alleging a small explosion and two severed tracks to the court, and the judge formally added it to the case on March 16.
- The Guardia Civil, in a report to the investigating judge, considers sabotage or a terrorist act highly improbable and continues to examine a rail or weld failure as the primary line of inquiry.
- Barcelona prosecutors initially opened and archived an administrative file on the anonymous tip before transferring the original documentation to Córdoba for territorial competence.