'El Mundo' is like the bank: it always wins.

The possible leak of an email has put the Attorney General in a tight spot. And it's worth remembering that the whole mess stems from a news story published by... The Worldwhich time has proven untrue. The newspaper claimed on its front page that the Prosecutor's Office had offered a plea deal to Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner, when in fact the initiative for the agreement came from the boyfriend's defense. But the paper was thus fulfilling the wishes of the Madrid president's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who wanted to discredit the investigation into his esteemed, unemployed, tax fraud. This interference, which affects a high-ranking political figure, will go unpunished. And the newspaper, once again, will not pay any price for its distorted information.

From there, we can expect the classic clash of narratives about what will be said at the trial. For the moment, the takeaway from Monday is that we should review the differences between an exclamation mark and a question mark. Let me explain. The newspaper The World —Who else?— opened the front page with the headline: "You leaked it!" This is the phrase that Madrid's chief prosecutor, Almudena Lastra, used with the Attorney General when she saw he was in a hurry to release the statement that cleared up the mystery of the manipulated news. It's an unequivocal accusation, although it proves nothing, no matter how big the headline is: it's her hypothesis. The CountryOf course, this passage is explained differently and it is said that Lastra goes ask If there had been a leak. Nothing, just a prosecutor's curiosity. The response he received, by the way, was "This doesn't matter now." I say this because the case reeks of something fishy, but that doesn't stop us from witnessing a lamentable spectacle in which media and judicial currents are stirred up, with the poor readers caught in the middle of a pointless fight.