The ARA publishes new information about the Cerdán caseNow that the judge has lifted the secrecy order on the latest Civil Guard report, conversations between Antxon Alonso and his wife, Karmele Atutxa, have surfaced. Both, worried, complain about the "excessive spending" of Santos Cerdán's wife, Francisca Muñoz, known as Paqui. Alonso laments, "All the saleswomen at El Corte Inglés know her. Spending and spending. And at restaurants, weekend after weekend." His wife complains that, on top of everything else, they aren't discreet.
Look, readers, if they had said, I don't know, Casa Cosa, where everyone has bought a little light to pretend they have a home, or Bazar Muralla VI, which has poinsettias at good prices... or Decathlon, to buy tights for the children... But he said El Corte Inglés. El Corte Inglés, with its uniformed sales assistants, so many floors (the "Young" floor, the "Women's" floor), and those men who pretend to shop but are really just watching you in case you steal... El Corte Inglés, with its "Gourmet" corner, where you'd buy everything. El Corte Inglés, where you can try on perfumes and lipstick, which had that brilliant promotion called...Foods from Europe"...where I used to buy wonderful trifles, like Swedish sunflower seed bread and Greek olives... El Corte Inglés is too much, too much bought pathIt's too idyllic, and it makes me envious. I want to be Paqui, I want to buy beds and mattresses so I can snog, I want to try on rings and order Lladró figurines. I want to be part of a corrupt scheme and spend and spend, yes, please, just one day, just one day, feel like Paqui, put on those ridiculously expensive jeans and this designer bag, cover it up, Mari Puri, until tomorrow. Outside there are street vendors, on the escalators sad ladies who are only going to buy Mr. Wonderful mugs. Not me. I am Paqui. And now, arrest me.
