Overview
- Court proceedings ended without incriminating evidence tying Álvaro García Ortiz to authoring or supplying the disputed email.
- Several journalists told the court he was not their source, with some saying they had the message before the accused.
- Guardia Civil arguments focused on institutional responsibility and a deleted mobile phone as circumstantial indicators rather than hard proof.
- The email at issue was sent to prosecutors by the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, the partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
- The pending sentence lands as the EU court’s Advocate General backed most of Spain’s amnesty law, diverging from the Supreme Court’s constitutional challenge.