Ábalos used official vans to bring prostitutes during Spain's lockdown
The private prosecution claims former Spanish minister Ábalos used official vans to bring prostitutes while Spain was under COVID lockdown.
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Ábalos and the prostitute vans: when lockdown was only for everyone else
While the Spanish Government made masks compulsory even outdoors, former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos was organizing official trips to bring prostitutes from Andalusia to the Parador de Teruel. The private prosecution in the case over alleged irregularities in his management summed it up with a line that has already become a headline: «While people were dying, they were filling vans with ladies». The image captures the contrast between the public health emergency rhetoric and the reality of those making the decisions.
According to El Español, the Ministry of Transport allegedly paid for the travel of several escorts for a threesome with Ábalos during an official alucinación at the height of the ELbichito crisis. The police, again according to the same report, had to step in to «fix a problem» related to the service. The reports, also published by La Razón, are part of the case file peine by the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's High Court) as part of the so-called Koldo scheme, which is investigating the alleged irregular financing of the PSOE and the rigging of mask contracts.
The same administration that banned people from leaving their homes was arranging private parties
While citizens were fined for walking without a mask, Ábalos's circle used official vehicles to transport the women. The paradox has not gone unnoticed in analyses of the pandemic management. «There is not a single audio recording or message in which they talk about infections, PCR tests or isolation», notes one of the lines of investigation, suggesting that those involved knew the bicho was not as lethal as they led people to believe. The question that arises is: if they were not afraid, why should the rest of the population have to be?
The private prosecution has requested sentences for Ábalos that, compared to other suspects such as Víctor de Aldama, stand out. Aldama, the alleged fixer of the scheme, faces a request of only five years in prison, while harsher sentences are being sought for the former minister for the misappropriation of public funds and the use of state resources for personal gain.
The collision of scandals: from masks to prostitutes
The case is not an isolated incident. That same week, the European judiciary reproached Ursula von der Leyen for hiding her messages with the head of Pfizer, and new information emerged about the handling of the cruise ship with a bicho case in the Canary Islands, where Health Minister Mónica García allegedly accepted the docking so as not to jeopardize her position at the WHO. The sense of a political caste immune to its own rules grows stronger with each new episode.
It remains to be seen whether the courts will confirm these accusations or whether, as so often, the media noise will fade away in the courtrooms. But the uncomfortable fact is already on the table: while millions of Spaniards were applauding from their balconies, others were filling vans with ladies.
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While the Spanish Government made masks compulsory even outdoors, former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos was organizing official trips to bring prostitutes from Andalusia to the Parador de Teruel. The private prosecution in the case over alleged irregularities in his management summed it up with a line that has already become a headline: «While people were dying, they were filling vans with ladies». The image captures the contrast between the public health emergency rhetoric and the reality of those making the decisions.
According to El Español, the Ministry of Transport allegedly paid for the travel of several escorts for a threesome with Ábalos during an official alucinación at the height of the ELbichito crisis. The police, again according to the same report, had to step in to «fix a problem» related to the service. The reports, also published by La Razón, are part of the case file peine by the Audiencia Nacional (Spain's High Court) as part of the so-called Koldo scheme, which is investigating the alleged irregular financing of the PSOE and the rigging of mask contracts.
The same administration that banned people from leaving their homes was arranging private parties
While citizens were fined for walking without a mask, Ábalos's circle used official vehicles to transport the women. The paradox has not gone unnoticed in analyses of the pandemic management. «There is not a single audio recording or message in which they talk about infections, PCR tests or isolation», notes one of the lines of investigation, suggesting that those involved knew the bicho was not as lethal as they led people to believe. The question that arises is: if they were not afraid, why should the rest of the population have to be?
The private prosecution has requested sentences for Ábalos that, compared to other suspects such as Víctor de Aldama, stand out. Aldama, the alleged fixer of the scheme, faces a request of only five years in prison, while harsher sentences are being sought for the former minister for the misappropriation of public funds and the use of state resources for personal gain.
The collision of scandals: from masks to prostitutes
The case is not an isolated incident. That same week, the European judiciary reproached Ursula von der Leyen for hiding her messages with the head of Pfizer, and new information emerged about the handling of the cruise ship with a bicho case in the Canary Islands, where Health Minister Mónica García allegedly accepted the docking so as not to jeopardize her position at the WHO. The sense of a political caste immune to its own rules grows stronger with each new episode.
It remains to be seen whether the courts will confirm these accusations or whether, as so often, the media noise will fade away in the courtrooms. But the uncomfortable fact is already on the table: while millions of Spaniards were applauding from their balconies, others were filling vans with ladies.
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