Supreme Court judge Ángel Hurtado rejected the Attorney General’s request to suspend the police analysis of the emails and messages that the Civil Guard intercepted on his cell phone and computer. The magistrate does not share Álvaro García Ortiz’s suspicions that all these documents will be disclosed to third parties outside the Supreme Court: “They were entrusted to a judicial police unit, at the service of this investigator, whose work and zeal there is no reason to doubt.
Both the Attorney General and Pilar Rodríguez, Madrid provincial prosecutor who is also accused, asked Judge Hurtado to temporarily suspend the police analysis of the seven months of emails and messages on which the Central Operational Unit intervened during the search carried out at the end october.
“I do not deny that among the intercepted documents there may be information of another type, which is not of interest to the investigation,” recognizes the judge, but this also happens, he affirms, in other types of invasive procedures such as wiretapping a telephone conversation. “In any case, it must be remembered that the procedure takes place under the secrecy of the summary in what it affects and that once carried out, we will agree on what is appropriate, in the event that this other type of information actually appears.”
