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EL MUNDO revealed on June 26 that Podemos already knew in 2016 that the 'Dina case' was not a police setup against Pablo Iglesias and published the content of the eloquent messages that were exchanged by the party's lawyers that corroborated it.

Four years ago, the then legal coordinator of the

formation

, José Manuel Calvente, expressly warned his party colleagues, after publishing the content of the mobile phone of the former assistant of Pablo Iglesias, Dina Bousselham, that the messages came from a "leak" and, in no case, "a theft".

What's more, he stressed to his party colleagues: "Compas, there is no case."

"If you look at them, they are screenshots while others write. Which rules out a stolen mobile," he added.

Despite the conclusions reached by the training lawyers, Pablo Iglesias denounced before the National Court the alleged existence of an operation of the

to steal the mobile phone of his collaborator.

He used the case opened in the Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court as a platform for his electoral campaign in the general elections of 2019 and got to implicate the press in the non-existent operation of the

that he denounced.

Not in vain, he came to promote a judicial operation against the

newspaper

for publishing some of the messages that the phone contained, such as that of Pablo Iglesias in which he said that the television presenter

had to be "whipped until he bled"

.

Cover of EL MUNDO of July 5, 2020.

Four years later, the investigators who seized a copy of Bousselham's telephone number at the home of Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo - it has already been proven that he had it not because there was a police operation to steal her, but because journalists from

magazine provided it to him

- they have reached the same conclusion that the party's lawyers reached and that Iglesias ignored to exploit the matter electorally.

Iglesias went on to say before the judge and prosecutors that the theft of the cell phone was linked to an action by the "patriotic police in the execution of a commission apparently carried out by high institutions with the aim of discrediting Podemos."

He focused his campaign on that speech and improved his polls.

On July 5, EL MUNDO went further and reproduced the content of the telephone calls that the lawyers made when, despite their warnings, the party leadership decided to accuse the National Police of plotting a similar espionage operation against Bousselham. to that of 'Operation Kitchen'.

"Hey, José Manuel, in the party they want to mount the movie about the theft of Dina's cell phone," Podemos lawyer

told her partner Calvente at the end of January 2019.

"I already told you that I do not see him, he has neither feet nor head from the legal point of view and they are crazy," he replied.

"Dina's environment already told us that she had sent what has been published to other people in the party; I don't see it. We have to wait for the investigation to progress and then analyze if we can say that the robbery was ordered. That Villarejo Having a copy is not an indication of anything to sustain that he ordered the theft. It is as if an individual who was seized a kilo of cocaine is accused of being the drug producer. Do not forget that Iglesias also had a copy and in the end you can catch yourself, "he added to Flor.

Cover of EL MUNDO from August 2, 2020.

The conversation ended with a joint reflection that is now fully topical: "The party has realized that the

is the goose that lays the golden eggs to mount a general cause against the State. They are going to say that there was an operation of the sewers of the State and there they can put everyone: the political, financial and media leg ".

As if that were not enough, this newspaper published the messages of another party lawyer,

, who also wrote in her own hand to her colleagues that the messages published from Dina's mobile were nothing more than screenshots that "she did ".

But the evidence that endorsed all the previous indications and that constituted a turning point in the judicial procedure was the exclusive interview published by EL MUNDO with Calvente on August 2.

The former legal head of the party said in these pages something that he recently ratified before the National Court as a witness: "The

is a set up and since I could dismantle it, they destroyed my life with a false sexual accusation."

In fact, this lawyer was expelled from the party after plotting against him a smear campaign consisting of accusing him of having harassed his former partner Flor.

Justice has already agreed with Calvente and has cast aside the mendacious accusations against him.

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