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Villarejo's Defense Claims Kitchen Was a Legitimate Intelligence Operation: "They Are Normal Police actions."

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The defense of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo has defended that Kitchen was a legitimate intelligence operation that sought hidden assets from the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas and information about the witnesses, and has requested the acquittal of this police officer, stressing that he only followed orders from his superiors. In the Kitchen case, which is followed in the National Court, the lawyer of the former commissioner, Anto…

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Lean Right

The retired commissioner blames his accusation on a sort of revenge from the senior officials he investigated, but says he trusts justice.

Lean Right

The trial for Operation Kitchen was seen this Tuesday for sentence, three and a half months after its start at the National High Court. After concluding the reports...

·Madrid, Spain
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The Audiencia Nacional (National High Court) has seen for sentence almost eight years after its beginning the process in which it is decided if the Interior spyed on the former PP treasurer. More information: Fernández Díaz's defense asks for his acquittal: "Never worried about the information of Bárcenas"

·Spain
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Lean Right

After more than three months and 37 oral hearings, the court presided over by Judge Teresa Palacios will have to decide on the future of eight accused

·Madrid, Spain
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The defense of the police asks for his acquittal in his final report, insists that there was no "parapolice operation" and yes one of "intelligence" where it could be committed "some mistake" The defense of retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo has requested his acquittal before the court of the National High Court and has denounced that the 'Operation Kitchen', concerning the alleged espionage of Luis Bárcenas, "never existed as such", but…

·Madrid, Spain
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The commissioner's defense denies in his closing statement that the plot sought to steal sensitive material from the PP that the former treasurer could keep.

·Madrid, Spain
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europapress.es broke the news in Spain on Monday, July 27, 2026.
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