Nothing like knowing the results before you do the tests. The PP was screwed.
Tanuki, you asked me once what was all this for.
Those videos were told to be lost. Only the push of the Association of Aiding of 3/11 Victims, and its perseverance in prosecuting Sanchez-Manzano, has allowed the judge of the case (from the Provincial courts, not so hardly controlled as the National High court) to ask for them, and threaten police and judicial civil servants with sanctions if they were not handed over to the court.
I think they are following the correct way of proceeding in such a case: saving the more evidence as possible and questioning witnesses, experts and defendants before a judge, so their testimony will have legal value, now and forever.
Nailing down such things leaves less space to maneouver when disinformation campaigns are set. In fact, the official side, leaving aside the issue of the decorations which is plainly an insult and a mafia-style threat to the democratic Spaniards, has not moved in the last months. They received the broadcasting of the videos simply labelling the channels that did so as “Fascists”.