A Court of Madrid charges four journalists for informing a crowded of the UCO of the case against the Attorney General

A Court of Madrid has accused at least four journalists to inform about the content of a report of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on the open case in the Supreme Court to the State Attorney General for the dissemination of confidential information of the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, as published The country.

The resolution attributes a crime of revelation of secrets, which is imputed to the maximum representative of the Public Ministry. Those mentioned as investigated are editors of El País, the World and 20 minutes and must appear as investigated on June 19.

That report, which was the first that the Armed Institute sent to the Supreme Court, pointed directly to the Prosecutor’s Office as the origin of the filtration of Alberto González Amador’s emails, a partner of the president of the Community of Madrid. The attestation detailed the conversations that the provincial prosecutor of Madrid Pilar Rodríguez – also charged – had with the attorney general himself in those days of March.

It was Rodríguez herself who filed a complaint with the judge who investigates him in the high court, Ángel Hurtado, for the leaks to the press of that report. After receiving the complaint, the judge agreed to deduce testimony and derive it to the Dean of the Courts of Madrid. Although article 20 of the Spanish Constitution recognizes the right “to freely communicate or receive truthful information by any means of dissemination”, the court has agreed to impute the four journalists.