As the Supreme Court session drew to a close, prosecutors seemed to have lost interest in asking questions. In the courtroom where the state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, is being tried for revealing secrets, the last summons of the day appeared, three journalists from this newspaper. The procedure was completed in a few minutes. Three hours earlier there had been the most tense interrogation of all recorded so far, even with an information professional as a witness. The public prosecutor’s lawyer, Gabriel Rodríguez-Ramos, attempted to corner José Manuel Romero, deputy director of EL PAÍS, in March 2024, when the facts under consideration by the Supreme Court occurred. He constantly interrupted him and demanded that he answer his questions with a yes or no, with no room for further explanation. Romero was not discouraged, he persisted in his arguments and the discussion intensified.
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