Overview

• Spain’s Fiscalía reports that Cometa told courts it could not supply records from before 20 March 2024 after the service migration from Telefónica/Securitas Direct to a Vodafone–Securitas consortium, leading to many provisional dismissals and acquittals.
• Equality Minister Ana Redondo says the devices worked, the issues were resolved in 2024, and affected cases were under 1%, adding that there have been no incidents in 2025 and that 4,515 bracelets were active as of 31 July.
• Judges and some prosecutors insist they warned months earlier, with meeting records citing malfunctions, and some courts now choose stricter measures such as pretrial detention in higher-risk cases.
• The PP will bring a reprobation motion against Redondo to the Congress this week and has called a Senate session for Tuesday, as the ministry rebuts a PP tweet that tied a 2024 killing to a bracelet failure.
• The PP has asked the European Commission to evaluate potential breaches of EU victim-protection and procurement rules, and the Commission has six weeks to respond.