José Manuel Villarejo was the protagonist of the day in the trial of the Kitchen case. The retired commissioner of the Spanish police, who has been parading through the courts for years and is part of the patriotic police leadership, spent three uninterrupted hours answering the prosecutor's questions in a convoluted statement in which he dedicated himself to shooting right and left and put several names on the table. One of the notable ones was that of Mariano Rajoy, whom he accused of benefiting from the illegal espionage of Luis Bárcenas: "He took advantage of this official and correct operation that was to locate assets abroad in case there was anything that affected him. All those who are charged were deceived by the genius of Mr. Rajoy, who resolves everything with Cardhu [a whisky]," he said. "Possibly, he wanted to jump on the bandwagon, take advantage of the matter and 'If there's anything from my [business], I want it too,'" he added later. Previously, he assured that the former president of the Spanish government asked him "through third parties" to inform him "directly" of his activity because he "did not trust" what Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz would tell him.

Jorge Fernández Díaz and Francisco Martínez have buried the hatchet and, denial after denial, have executed a non-aggression pact with all the trimmings. After two months of trial and more than 150 witnesses, the two main defendants in the Kitchen case have entered the scene: they have followed the planned script and have denied any involvement in the espionage against Luis Bárcenas. The Prosecutor's Office is requesting 15 years in prisonfor the former Minister of the Interior and the former Secretary of State for Security. Their statements have shown a pacification that was non-existent during the investigation, many points of connection, and a clear contradiction. The common denominator has been to distance themselves from the state's underbelly. Jorge Fernández Díaz stated that he became aware of the Kitchen operation, "like any ordinary person," in late 2015, when "it began to appear" in the media: "Until then, I had not heard of it from above, or below, or from the right, or from the left. No one had spoken to me about it," he assured. Francisco Martínez also denied ordering a operation against the former PP treasurer: "I never ordered investigations into anything," he said.