Jorge Fernández Díaz considers that Spain is experiencing an “unheard of situation.” He writes it in reference to (in an article published in the newspaper The reason) just a few hours before Kitchen case. This was one of the most anticipated events of the trial for the espionage plotted in 2013 against Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of the PP. And it finally arrived this Thursday. After 1:00 p.m., who was Minister of the Interior from 2011 to 2016, a man very close to the then president Mariano Rajoy, stood before the court to announce that he would only respond to the questions asked by his lawyer and the magistrates themselves. From that moment on, the former popular leader has denied his involvement in the plot or that he knew anything about it: “I didn’t know it existed,” he repeated. Despite the fact that his former number two and Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, had contradicted him just a few minutes before.
