Biedma implicates PSOE circles in contacts with drug traffickers

Badajoz Judge Beatriz Biedma maintains that the PSOE's circles contacted drug trafficking clans to compromise her personal security.

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Biedma denounces that the PSOE's circles sought narcotics dealers to intimidate her

The content of the filing, which details the allegations, gained prominence on September 16, 2026. The instruction judge in Badajoz, Beatriz Biedma, maintains that the network (referred to as 'circles') attributed to PSOE environments contacted drug trafficking clans “with the purpose of compromising her personal security due to the exercise of her jurisdictional duties.” The instructor does not describe generic pressures or leaks; she describes physical risk. This is why she requests to appear as the prosecution in this circles case, believing her integrity was exposed while investigating the case against David Sánchez, Sánchez's brother.

What role is attributed to Leire Díez and the clans

According to information published trinc the filing, an envoy of Leire Díez —a former socialist militant and identified as responsible for the network— allegedly showed the narcotics trafficker known as 'El Etniano' the magistrate’s daily routine to give her “a fright.” The second piece is even more explicit: the offer was allegedly made to the 'Los Rochos' clan that if Biedma dropped from the equation, the Prosecutor’s Office would close its pending cases. It is important to underline the status of all this. These are accusations contained in judicial filings and press reports, not facts proven by a final judgment. The difference matters, and in this case, it matters greatly.

The Canary Islands connection and other pieces of the same pattern

The Badajoz case is not isolated. Other information links the Canary Islands politician Gustavo Matos as a presumed intermediary for the narcotics trafficker Derbah, describing a relationship of “reciprocity” between a band leader and the politician, along with warnings about inspections of clubs and a phrase quoted in the indictments: “Here you are the order.” There is also mention of the 'El Tigre' clan and contacts in the Tax Agency (Hacienda) for money laundering. These are loose ends, of unequal reliability, but they paint a repeated pattern: interaction between political structures and the underground economy when judicial cases are pressing.

The brother's case: two years of inhabilitation and cross-appeals

The backdrop is the case against David Sánchez. The thread states that the sentence was settled with two years of inhabilitation, a penalty one participant considers almost decorative for someone who never held a career civil service position. Based on this, Hazte Oír has appealed and demanded six years in prison and the return of collected salaries. Parallelly, it has been noted that García Ortiz's right-hand man promoted a sanction against that association for its complaint, and the audio of a lawyer paid by the PSOE admitting to the judge that he wrote, “we must end Luzón,” is circulating. The case remains open.



There is a logical thread running through all of this that no one has managed to close: if the circles operated with contacts in narcotics, the Tax Agency, and the Prosecutor's Office, where was the limit? The honest answer, based on available data, is that we do not know. The case is alive; the fruta are not firm, and there is no official response recorded in the material. This is where the analysis stalls, and it is wise to leave it there.

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