The courts decided to bury a hoax stemming from the investigation against the attorney general: the Madrid prosecutor, Pilar Rodríguez, allegedly met Begoña Gómez in a restaurant to advise the president’s wife on the proceedings against her. The Superior Court of Madrid rejected the complaint by which the ultra-Catholic organization HazteOir requested the indictment of this prosecutor for three different offenses and describes its arguments as “mere suspicion” in an attempt to criminalize the content of a post-it found in a newspaper during the searches carried out by the Civil Guard a year ago in this prosecutor’s office on the orders of Judge Ángel Hurtado.
The annotation was found by agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) in a diary while simultaneously searching the offices of prosecutor Pilar Rodríguez and former attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz. A post-it in Rodríguez’s diary stuck between March 12 and 13, 2024 and with two indications: “Restaurant Manuel Becerra” and “Begoña Gómez Fernández”, both clearly separated by a pen line. The annotation had no significance during the case and did not appear until shortly after the trial.
The reality, as elDiario.es explains, is that the two notes were not linked to each other and neither of them reflected a possible meeting with the wife of the president of the government. “Restaurant Manuel Becerra” referred to a question that the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s press service had asked, at the request of several media outlets, about the legal proceedings investigating the fatal fire that occurred a year earlier in the “Burro Canaglia” restaurant. The inscription “Begoña Gómez Fernández” is due to the fact that there was a register in which the Attorney General’s Office requested information on the complaints filed against her, and Pilar Rodríguez was in the process of collecting this information.
On March 13 of that year, the day the post-it was added to the agenda, the Attorney General of Madrid, Almudena Lastra, explained in writing to the General Prosecutor’s Office in a statement of accounts what had happened with all these complaints “with identical content” against the president’s wife and her work at Complutense. Complaints prior to that of Mains Propres which were used by Juan Carlos Peinado to open his file and which had been presented, among others, by the conspiracy theorist Pilar Baselga a year earlier.
He The PP quickly moved to demand explanations to Minister Félix Bolaños and HazteOir filed a complaint before the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, although they have not made public the failure of this criminal action. The judges, in an order issued a few weeks ago and to which elDiario.es had access, understand that these are accusations based on “mere conjectures” without any proof of the existence of the meeting and even less of all the subsequent accusations: that prosecutor Rodríguez revealed information inappropriately to Begoña Gómez and then used his influence to oppose the instruction of Judge Peinado.
The note itself found by the UCO in this prosecutor’s diary, affirms the TSJM, “does not indirectly support the very existence of the meeting and even less, a fortiori, its content and criminally relevant content: we are faced with a simple suspicion, the criminal scope of which is neither revealed nor glimpsed.” Moreover, she adds, on that date, Peinado had not even opened a case against her. “This does not reveal the slightest indication – beyond mere suspicion – of criminally prohibited consulting activities, much less the slightest hint of the revelation of secrets. »
The “criminal hypotheses” with which HazteOir requested the indictment of this prosecutor are based, the judges reproach, on “generic statements, on simple conjectures or suspicions”. “Pure conjecture,” they say. In its complaint press release, the ultra-Catholic association even suggested that Pilar Rodríguez had been reappointed as provincial prosecutor of Madrid after this meeting which never existed.
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