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Fernández Díaz Disassociates Himself From Operation Kitchen and Claims that the PP Did Not Bring Him "No Restlessness" About Bárcenas.

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Former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, accused of leading a parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, has denied his link with that operation being prosecuted at the National High Court. Fernández Díaz has stated in his statement before the Chamber that he heard about the so-called Kitchen operation through the press and that he never participated in it. He has also said that "no one" transmitted to him "from …

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Jorge Fernández Díaz believes that Spain is living an “unheard-of situation.” He writes in reference to the outbreak of the last chapter of the Leire case (in an article published in the newspaper La Razón) just a few hours before declaring in the National High Court as accused by the Kitchen case. This was one of the most anticipated quotes from the 2013 espionage trial against Luis Bárcenas, former PP treasurer. And finally arrived on Thursday…

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He denies his 'ex-number two' Francisco Martínez by denying that he asked him in 2013 if Bárcenas' driver was a police confidant.More information: Francisco Martínez states that he never ordered Bárcenas to spy: "I thought the agents were acting within the law.

·Spain
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Former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, accused of leading a parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, has denied his link with that operation being prosecuted at the National High Court. Fernández Díaz has stated in his statement before the Chamber that he heard about the so-called Kitchen operation through the press and that he never participated in it. He has also said that "no one" transmitted to him "from …

·Madrid, Spain
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Former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz said this Thursday in the Kitchen trial that the first time he heard about this alleged parapolice operation against the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas was when it appeared in the press, in 2015 or 2016. In addition, he has denied having interfered in police operations or knowing about confidants. Prior to Fernández Díaz he has declared the former Interior number 2 with Mariano Rajoy, who has also…

Center

The former Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, has sat down this Thursday on the bench of the defendants.After listening from the front row to the statement of his number two, Francisco Martínez, the former PP deputy has defended in court his innocence and has disassociated himself from the espionage operation of Luis Bárcenas.Fernández Díaz has begun by saying that he had no knowledge of the existence of an alleged plan to know the informa…

·Spain
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Former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz said this Thursday that he met the alleged...

·Spain
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Eldiario.es broke the news in Spain on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
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