The Prosecutor's Office has asked the Barcelona Court to close the case opened against the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban for spying on the Catalan president. The public ministry adheres to the appeal that the State Attorney's Office presented against the decision of the investigating judge to keep the former CNI director as a defendant.
The judge plans to commission another expert test from a police force to certify whether the cell phone could have been attacked on dates prior to those legally endorsed, but the prosecutor's Office considers that even if this point is proven, the case will not be closed. The head of the investigative court number 29 of Barcelona, Santiago Garca, already rejected the request of the State Attorney's Office to file the case for Estebans, who, in his appearance as an investigator, did not provide any information about the attack with Pegasus on Aragonès' cell phone. However, a computer expert provided to the court concludes that the ERC leader had his cell phone infected with Pegasus between July 2018 and March 2020.