Madrid (EFE)
The high court upholds the appeal of Diego Pérez de los Cobos against the sentence of the National Court that confirmed his dismissal agreed by the Ministry of the Interior in May 2020.
De los Cobos was fired after members of the Judicial Police of the Madrid Command delivered a report to the judge who was handling the case of the 8M demonstration and its possible influence on the spread of the coronavirus.
At first, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, attributed the dismissal to internal organizational reasons and disassociated him from that report, although he later qualified that he was responding to its leak to the media.