After the details with which the Supreme Court distracted us from the 50th anniversary of 20-N, we must surrender to the evidence: few activities are as dangerous in this country as denying the falsehoods of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her chief (of cabinet). Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, the self-proclaimed MAR, that man convicted for calling a doctor who sedated terminally ill patients to ease their agony a “Nazi”, has become a character of picaresque literature in contemporary Spain. The MAR distributes hoaxes at will, boasts about them under the nose of the Supreme Court between jokes and shamelessness – “I am not a notary” -, threatens rebellious journalists – “we will crush you” -, boasts of anticipating judicial decisions… And always ends up singing its triumphant war cry: “Come on!”.
It is worth remembering that that almost forgotten episode in the spring of 2022 that sank Pablo Casado’s career also began with a hoax circulated by MAR. Knowing that the national leadership of the PP had compromising information for the Madrid president, the screenwriter Rodríguez anticipated and created a spy story with that cañí touch that distinguishes him: Génova had created a gestapillo corner Ayuso. It was just a matter of looking for thoughtful means to acquire it and… Come on!
Casado tried to come forward and launched into Cope’s microphones that terrible complaint about the affairs of the president’s brother: “The question is whether it is understandable that on April 1st, when 700 people died in Spain, you can make a contract with your sister and receive 286 thousand euros in profit from the sale of masks”. No evidence was ever heard or presented regarding the spy film. The leader of the PP was summarily ousted five days later, on February 23 (the case seems to give symbolic dates to Ayusism). Come on!
Just two years later, a new story emerges with similar ingredients: another close friend of Ayuso – her boyfriend, registered by MAR on her phone as Alberto Quirón, the name of the company that receives the largest public health contracts in Madrid – and another fabulous deal while 700 people were dying a day, as Casado would say: an exorbitant commission of two million euros for the sale of masks from a company in Barcelona to another in Pontevedra. With some not very nice elements: falsified invoices for one and a half million euros to defraud the treasury of 350,000. As a result of that loot, a luxury penthouse in Madrid to share with your partner. Come on!
The press finds out and publishes it. The screenwriter gets to work. The president, who never tires of warning that we have become a dictatorship, denounces a “state operation” to destroy it. MAR provides details with the edges of Netflix: hooded journalists who try to break into the couple’s house, others who terrorize the children of the neighborhood… Until the final blow, always with a plethora of media willing to recite the script: the Public Prosecutor had offered a deal to the defenseless fiancé, victim of the Spanish tax hell, but a black hand stopped him “by order from above”. “All dark and dirty.” Come on!
After the initiative of the Public Prosecutor to explain that things were exactly the opposite and that there had been no operation of abuse against Ayuso, Rodríguez marks another milestone: in a country where hundreds of judicial leaks are recorded every year, the Supreme Court gets to work to investigate one of them. No more and no less than with the State Attorney General’s Office in the crosshairs. The case, despite the enormous legal controversy it arouses, is gaining ground against Álvaro García Ortiz. MAR, in its clairvoyance, announces judicial decisions online days in advance. Come on!
We have thus arrived at this unforgettable November 20th in which the Supreme Court, just a week after the conclusion of the trial, issued the sentence without having to bother to present its arguments, because there will be time. MAR was only wrong about one thing: it predicted that García Ortiz would end up in prison. In the rest, everything forward. Spain, move forward!
