The alleged collaborator of Leire Díez denies following Judge Biedma by car: “She was about 450 kilometers away”

Former magistrate Luis Sáenz de Tejada, identified as a collaborator in the plot of the Leire Díez case and whom Judge Beatriz Biedma has denounced for supposedly following her by car after testifying at the National Court on October 8, has sent a letter to the instructor Santiago Pedraz to deny the episode. Sáenz de Tejada, charged last week with four crimes, claims that that day he was 450 kilometers from the point in Badajoz where, according to Biedma's version, the vehicles were found. The former judge asserts that, in addition, he spent the day accompanied by three family members; and that he even finished recording a video at his sister's house just an hour before the alleged incident.

Sáenz de Tejada describes Biedma's story as a "new false complaint" and frames it within an alleged strategy to "retaliate" him for the continuous complaints of corruption that the former magistrate has been promoting for years - he maintains that there is a plot in the courts of Badajoz, where it includes Biedma. The judge of the city of Badajoz, who led the case against Pedro Sánchez's brother, instructed for a few months the process that ended with Sáenz Tejada's sentence to almost three years in prison for sexist violence, which cost him his expulsion from the race.

On October 13, Biedma went to the Extremadura Police Headquarters to report that five days earlier, when he was driving by car from the Badajoz airport to his home after testifying at the National Court as a victim of the Leire Díez case, he ran into the former magistrate on the road. According to the report, “the eldest of his daughters” warned him “that a white car” had pulled up “in parallel” and was “occupied” by the former magistrate. "In relation to that meeting, he does not know how that person could have known that the declarant was going to make that trip at that time, fearing that they could have placed some type of locator or GPS device in her vehicle [...] The declarant fears for her physical integrity, as well as that of her daughters," said the agent who took her statement. After that, the Ministry of the Interior has given the magistrate an escort.

“On October 8, I spent the entire day at my sister's house, in the town of Uceda (Guadalajara), about 450 kilometers away and about four and a half hours from the place indicated in the complaint,” Sáenz de Tejada answers in the letter sent to the National Court. To reinforce his response, the former magistrate provides the data of the platform he used to record the video: "The date, start time of the recording and duration are recorded. I started at 5:46 p.m. on October 8, 2026, with the video lasting 23 minutes," he points out. Biedma said that the alleged meeting of the vehicles occurred around 7:15 p.m.

The accused insists that “it is evident that I could not reach the place indicated in the complaint.” And, in turn, he adds that “all” of his “mobile devices and laptop can be geolocated” in Uceda on October 8, 2026. Sáenz de Tejada takes the opportunity to attack Biedma and questions, sarcastically, that it took him five days to report “alleged serious and intimidating events.” “The alleged crime 'is paralleling',” he ironizes, before highlighting that they also did not identify the license plate of the car that allegedly followed her.