Zeno of Elea explained to us 2,500 years ago that the arrow shot by Achilles will never reach the tortoise to which he has given a certain advantage. The philosopher maintains that, before, the projectile must cover half the distance separating it from the animal. And that once it reaches this goal, it must reach half of the remaining stretch. And since space can be divided into infinite portions, there will always be a half to cover. The paradox, unfortunately, will not work for Begoña Gómez. No matter how much the newspapers less hostile to Pedro Sánchez, such as La Vanguardia or El Periódico, headline saying that Gómez is “one step away” from sitting on the defendants' bench, the safest bet is that Judge Peinado has not organized all that he has organized to leave her only on the brink of judicial abyss.
The newspapers of the cave, of course, disregard the fact that technically there are five days in which things can happen that will prevent her from appearing as a defendant, and they take for granted not only the oral hearing but the imputation of certain crimes without the delicacy of "alleged". Let's observe, for example, the pirouette of this headline from El Mundo: “The bench awaits Begoña to «take advantage» of Sánchez's power”. The contrast between the two Spains is manifested in the difference in tone between the headline of El País, which speaks of a prosecution “after a controversial investigation”, and that of La Razón, where it is stated that the magistrate has found “ten indications” that justify judging Gómez: clearly the second newspaper wants to suggest that, with so much accumulation of evidence, there is surely a good amount of guilt. From the reader's point of view, so much has been said about the case that the feeling is that the arrow has already covered all the halves of the distance it had to cover. Gómez has already paid the price of the news and now it only remains for Peinado to manage to cover that last half of the distance he so desires.
