The prosecutor's WhatsApp messages are no longer of interest.

The Madrid media has a great capacity to blast its strident music for weeks on end, based on topics with less substance than a Georgie Dann song. A case in point would have been the affair of the Attorney General's cell phone. For weeks, the usual suspects have been beating their drums with front pages centered on the messages deleted by Álvaro García Ortiz upon learning that he would be investigated for the alleged leak involving Ayuso's partner. It was assumed that something would be found. But that wasn't the case. According to the UCO of the Civil Guard, "it has not been possible to recover the messages […] that could be of interest to the investigation." It seems to me to be a very calculated formulation, because it allows those who have tried, unsuccessfully, to close the siege on the Attorney General to maintain the idea that something must have happened. A court reporter for a right-wing newspaper explained on her X account that no compromised information was found in the messages "not because it doesn't exist, but because it couldn't be recovered." Oh, the: it's exactly the same thing for all intents and purposes, unless we've stopped believing in the presumption of innocence. It may be more or less embarrassing that I've deleted messages—and, frankly, it's not too surprising—but if you can't prove them, you have nothing, only speculations born of frustration.

This explains why, after so much time with the xunda-xunda of the WhatsApp deleted, the news that no compromised material has appeared has only been brought, of course, toThe CountryThose who had been blasting the issue on their loudspeakers have suddenly fallen silent. And there remains an awkward silence, like that after a failed lynching, with the apparent acquiescence of a judge, by the way.