• Justice The Supreme Court rules that Delcy Rodríguez stepped on Spanish territory but that José Luis Ábalos did not commit a crime

  • Courts. The Madrid judge files the 'Delcy case' considering that the Barajas airport transit area "is not national territory"

  • Reconstruction.Ábalos had a second 20-minute meeting with Delcy Rodríguez in a VIP room in Barajas

Justice has concluded that the Venezuelan Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, during the early morning of January 20 of this year, accessed Spanish territory.

This is the view of the Supreme Court, which, although it sees the failure to comply with the foreign policy decisions of the European Union, highlights that this violation of the Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, who met with her, is subject to political control and not to criminal responsibility.

The High Court clarifies that from the moment that the aircraft in which Rodríguez was traveling flew over Spanish airspace, the sanctions that the EU had issued against it for violation of human rights were breached.

A conclusion that clashes with the various versions that Ábalos himself, the Government or even the PSOE gave about what happened that morning.

Up to five times in a week it was ensured that the Venezuelan vice president did not set foot on Spanish soil.

JANUARY 24.

SEVERAL VERSIONS IN ONE DAY

Jump the news of the meeting.

Ábalos goes from recognizing that there was no meeting to admitting that he went to personally pick up the Venezuelan Minister of Tourism,

Félix Plasencia

, with whom he maintains friendship, and that he coincided there with Rodríguez, who planned to continue his trip to Turkey.

JANUARY 25.

"DO NOT LOWER"

In an interview published in

La Razón

, Ábalos says that he received a call from the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in which he warned him that another minister, the Foreign Minister, Arancha González Laya, has confirmation that Rodríguez flies in the plane.

"As you go, try not to get off the plane," explains Ábalos, who was asked by Grande-Marlaska.

He admits that he greeted Rodríguez "on the plane" and that they did not see each other at the terminal.

JANUARY 25.

"AVOIDED A CRISIS"

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, shows his full support for Ábalos, who went to Barajas to "avoid a diplomatic crisis", a task, according to the chief executive, with which he fulfilled.

26 OF JANUARY.

A "20 OR 25 MINUTES" GREETING

The PSOE number three admits that he spent "20 or 25 minutes" with the Venezuelan vice president.

So far, the conversation with Rodríguez had been limited to "a greeting."

Asked in

La Sexta

, he confesses that Delcy Rodríguez got off the plane to make a "stopover", which "does not mean entering" Spanish territory.

A story that days later the socialist Federal Executive will acquire: there was no intention of entering Spain.

JANUARY 28.

"A DIPLOMATIC MANAGEMENT"

The government spokeswoman, María Jesús Montero, insists that with Ábalos' "diplomatic management" it was "prevented" that Delcy Rodríguez "entered" in Spain, "as it did not happen in the end."

Just a couple of days later it would be known that the Venezuelan vice president spent several hours in the VIP lounge of the airport.

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