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UCO report undermines alleged shooting at Aldama car in Atocha

According to the UCO report, damage to Víctor de Aldama's Audi at Atocha in September 2024 may have come from a sharp object in an attempted theft, without a…

--- The context --- Víctor de Aldama has been cooperating with the Anticorruption Prosecutor and the National Court in cases involving former minister José Luis Ábalos and his adviser Koldo García. In October 2024, reports claimed that his car had been shot three times as a warning. --- The facts --- According to the UCO report submitted to the National Court and dated September 8 this year, the damage was found on September 28, 2024, on an Audi parked at Atocha station. According to the UCO report, Aldama told the journalist advising him that they might already have the story they needed and that he did not know whether it was attempted theft or shots. According to the UCO report, a Civil Guard friend from the Rapid Action Group initially saw two blows from a blunt object. According to the UCO report, Aldama told the insurer that someone tried to steal the car by breaking the glass with a punch, without success, and that he did not report it because it happened at dawn. According to the UCO report, the report was prepared within the Villafuel case, where Aldama and Claudio Rivas are accused of defrauding 182 million euros between 2022 and 2024. Aldama was sentenced this year in the Koldo case to four and a half years, although the Supreme Court spared him prison for cooperating. --- The positions --- According to the UCO report, those involved considered that the damage could have been caused by a sharp object and Aldama repaired the vehicle without a complaint. In contrast, his circle leaked to the press that he had been shot at, and that thesis circulated for weeks. --- What remains unknown --- The source contains no complaint for the damage and no proof of shots. Almost two years later, a report from the GEES security company still included the alleged shooting with three shots in November 2024, with the wrong month, according to the UCO report. --- Unanswered questions --- Who decided to turn an attempted theft into a shooting for the press? Why was no complaint filed if there was a real threat? What effect did that account have on how the risk around Aldama was perceived? --- EPM analysis --- The case shows how a threat narrative can be built without verified shots. Aldama's judicial cooperation remains relevant, but his credibility requires separating proven facts from interested versions. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the report attributed to the UCO seriously weakens the shooting thesis and requires caution toward any threat account based only on leaks from an interested circle. An attempted theft with a punch is not a gun attack, and mixing both levels distorts judicial and public assessment of the case. The minimum standard is a complaint, technical evidence and chronological consistency before material damage is presented as a credible and verifiable intimidation message.
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