Overview
- The oral trial in Madrid's Audiencia Provincial closed in late May 2026 and was declared visto para sentencia after final arguments from the Fiscalía and the defence.
- The Fiscalía says municipal leaders, including Mayor Antonia Alcázar, omitted action on repeated complaints between 2019 and 2025 and opened only four sanction files that stalled.
- Prosecutors ask for three and a half years' imprisonment, daily fines, €4,000 in damages to residents and a 12‑year ban from urban and environmental public duties.
- Alcázar and co‑defendants deny criminal intent, saying they relied on municipal technicians, lacked a sonometer and resources to carry out or compel formal acoustic inspections.
- Neighbors testified to about 17 years of noise, more than 100 complaints and late‑night events that exceeded legal closing hours according to police reports, and coverage notes Alcázar's prior cleared probe and political ties.