Editorial: El Mundo

• The vast majority of the Board of Prosecutors of the Supreme Court disagrees with the archiving of the case about the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco.
• Thirteen out of 16 members think the National Court overstepped by declaring the crime lapsed.
• These prosecutors argue that recent actions keep the case open and would allow for the prosecution of three historic terrorist leaders as responsible for the kidnapping and murder in 1997.
• The dispute within the Prosecution, dating back to 2023, resulted in the prosecutor in charge of the case being sidelined.
• The decision about the archiving was, in the view of the majority of prosecutors, political.

Conclusion: There is clear spatial discrepancy within the Prosecution concerning the investigation of the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, with a mixed assessment of the events that triggered it and a hint of political intervention in the procedure.

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