Year 2013. Mariano Rajoy governs Spain with an absolute majority and the "papers of Luis Bácenas" come to light, revealing the existence of a black box within the PP. Following this, the Ministry of the Interior, led by Jorge Fernández Díaz, designs and –according to the Public Prosecutor's account– launches an "illicit police intelligence operation" with the aim of stealing information and evidence from Luis Bárcenas, the former treasurer of the PP, that would incriminate popular leaders in the context of the Gürtel case. The ultimate objective is to "prevent" it from reaching the hands of the investigators. Five years later, that corruption trial ends with the sentence that leads to the motion of no confidence that brings Pedro Sánchez to La Moncloa. And now, thirteen years later, the leadership of the patriotic police sits on the defendants' bench, with "requests for fifteen years in prison by the Public Prosecutor's Office, in a trial that begins on Monday at the National Court and which will have to shed light on the maneuvers of the state's sewers to protect the PP. The main crimes they are accused of are cover-up, embezzlement, bribery, disclosure of secrets, and influence peddling.

Leire Diez, investigated in a Madrid court for bribery and influence peddling, has been the PP's choice to resume, after the summer recess, the crusade in the Senate against the PSOE for its alleged corruption cases. The former Socialist militant appeared before the commission of inquiry into the Koldo case and, despite his legal status, did not remain silent and refuted the accusations from the right and the far right, insisting on the narrative he has deployed since the scandal broke. "I'm not a plumber, I'm a journalist," he asserted, reiterating that he is working on the publication of a book on "the malfunctioning of institutions," hence the collection of audio recordings that have been released in which he allegedly interferes in judicial proceedings. Díez claimed that the investigation he has conducted is not to favor the PSOE but in favor of the "rule of law," and denied that he was "well connected" within the party, thus distancing himself from both the PSOE and former party leader Santos Cerdán.

Unconditional imprisonment for the former deputy leader of the Interior Ministry during Jorge Fernández Díaz's administration and Mariano Rajoy's government. Once brought before a court this Thursday, two days after being arrested, the judge of the National Court who is investigating him has ordered provisional imprisonment without bail for Francisco Martínez as well as for the hacker José Luis Huertas, known as Alcasec, and a third person arrested, Adrián Molina, are charged. The case being led by Judge María Tardón accuses them of money laundering, discovery and disclosure of secrets, and organized crime.

Cornered by several cases relating to the PP's dirty war against his political adversaries, Francisco Martínez (Madrid, 1975) has once again fallen into disgrace, this time for a case of alleged money laundering, disclosure of secrets and cybercrimes, for which he was arrested this Tuesday. The Secretary of State for Security between 2013 and 2016, during Jorge Fernández Díaz's time at the Ministry of the Interior, has seen how his maneuvers with former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo in Operation Catalunya, the prospective investigations against Podemos and his pleas to the former president have been exposed. Audios and WhatsApp revealed in recent years have exposed him. "My biggest mistake was being loyal to wretches like Jorge, [Mariano] Rajoy, or [María Dolores de] Cospedal," he lamented in a message.

The former deputy head of the Interior Ministry during Jorge Fernández Díaz's administration and Mariano Rajoy's government has been arrested, according to the newspaper. The Independent According to legal sources, former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez is being investigated for money laundering, discovery and disclosure of secrets, and organized crime. This is a secret case being handled by Court No. 3 of the National Court, headed by María Tardón. hacker José Luis Huertas –known as Alcasec–, Adrián Molina and the YouTuber Álvaro Martín, who works in the cryptocurrency sector, has been arrested in Andorra. According to legal sources, modus operandi It involved the extraction of data from public and private entities through cyberattacks and, subsequently, its commercialization and the laundering of the profits.

"You have to suffer all your life. What would my son be like now?" Francisco Javier Martínez, father of Xavi Martínez Mompart, the three-year-old boy killed in the attack on the Rambla on August 17, 2017, has been the first victim to appear before the commission of inquiry in Congress on 17-A. Martínez has denounced, seven and a half years later, that in all this time the administrations have not attended well to the victims, who have been "marked for life." "We are the broken toys of a society. We need empathy to help us get back on our feet," he said. Martínez has explained that they have lacked support, information about their rights and about the procedures they should follow. And he has denounced episodes of lack of "humanity." His testimony, he stressed, seeks to "improve" care for the future. "Do not forget that it can happen to any of you," he said.