The businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, presented a brief to the Supreme Court this Monday requesting to intervene in the communications of six journalists protected by professional secrecy. Specifically, he has asked to investigate the communications of an informant from Cadena SER, four from eldiario.es and another from El Plural with him for the alleged leak of an email sent to the Prosecutor’s Office by González Amador’s lawyer in which this and proposed an agreement that would prevent him from going to jail.
In an unprecedented request, the lawyer for Ayuso’s boyfriend has asked Judge Ángel Hurtado to instruct the telephone companies to preserve all communications that journalists have had from their cell phones in the last nine months with the attorney general. The data that González Amador claims includes the phone numbers the informants called, when and for how long they spoke. It also affects what messages they wrote or who they received them from and at what time. A request that conflicts with the professional secrecy of journalists and their right not to reveal sources, both protected by the Constitution.
González Amador has demanded that, in addition, the judge authorize the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to investigate the electronic devices of the lieutenant prosecutor of the Technical General Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office, Diego Villafañe, for which he requests the accusation, as well as to analyze the communications of three people linked to the Government at the time of the events. This is the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallés; the communications director of the Ministry of Housing, Laura Sánchez Espada; the head of communications of the PSOE at the time, Ion Antolín, and the then chief of staff of Óscar López, Pilar Sánchez Acera, who supposedly sent someone who had already testified as a witness and accessed the dump of the contents of his mobile phone.
Ayuso’s boyfriend understands that the information in her confession has violated her privacy and her right to defense. In his writing, his lawyer makes no mention of the hoax created by him, and disseminated in various media to discredit the Public Ministry. Published before the leaked email, this fake news claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office itself had offered a deal to businessman González Amador and not the other way around, as really happened. Rodríguez had already defamed and intimidated before.
Following in the wake of Ayuso’s own chief of staff, the reactions from the Madrid Popular Party have not been long in coming. Candela Ruiz de la Mata, from the Madrid PP communication team, has written a message on X (formerly Twitter) reacting to the information and supporting the request of the Madrid president’s partner. “You’re going ahead,” he said on the social network, referring to them.
