Vox leader Santiago Abascal has accused figures linked to Spain’s governing Socialists of sending hitmen to the school attended by a judge’s daughters and trying to kill the magistrate investigating Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s brother. The accusation follows Guardia Civil testimony that a former judge associated with PSOE operative Leire Díez approached a Badajoz criminal clan about ‘eliminating’ Judge Beatriz Biedma.
‘They sent hitmen to the school of Judge Biedma’s daughters. They tried to eliminate her,’ Abascal declared on Thursday. Calling Sánchez the ‘capo of the mafia’, he described Spain as ‘held hostage’ ahead of the 29 November election.
The accusation came as Biedma herself appeared before the National Court, describing the fear she experienced while investigating irregularities surrounding David Sánchez’s employment at the provincial government of Badajoz. School staff said a stranger posing as her brother had asked about her, although she has no brother. Someone posing as her secretary also made inquiries elsewhere, while lawyers warned her of suspected surveillance, including an alleged video showing her with her daughters.
The report also records allegations of violence against Biedma. Cintia Rocho, associated with Badajoz’s Los Rocho criminal clan, told the Guardia Civil’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) that expelled former judge Luis José Sáenz de Tejada had described Biedma as an obstacle who needed to be ‘eliminated’. He allegedly added that ‘the donkey learns through beatings’, which Rocho understood as a proposal for physical violence. She said she refused.
‘An alleged clan member later claimed on television that Biedma was to be frightened and then killed by Colombian hitmen’
An alleged clan member later claimed on television that Biedma was to be frightened and then killed by Colombian hitmen; another claimed that alleged PSOE contacts in Madrid had stopped the plan. Neither account has been verified.
Investigators are examining whether the alleged approach to the clan formed part of a wider effort to disrupt the case against David Sánchez. The UCO traced contacts involving Sáenz de Tejada, former PSOE member Leire Díez, businessman Javier Pérez Dolset and Joaquín Parra back to August 2024. Their meetings and WhatsApp messages concerned ways to challenge Biedma and disrupt the proceedings against David Sánchez.
A note recovered from Dolset’s phone stated: ‘Destroy the brother’s proceedings’. In July 2026, a court convicted David Sánchez and imposed a nine-year disqualification from public employment for administrative misconduct; former regional PSOE leader Miguel Ángel Gallardo was disqualified for 18 years. Both are appealing.
The effort to ‘eliminate’ the judge allegedly extended well beyond meetings and messages. Sáenz de Tejada published dozens of videos attacking Biedma, while Parra relayed allegations that three men—Antonio García Borruel, Antonio Hinchado Alba and Javier Ulla—had gathered information about her in exchange for free legal assistance. Parra said he had not heard anyone propose physically attacking her during his meetings with Díez and Dolset. Sáenz de Tejada denies links to the criminal clan and says he has not been summoned for questioning.
Vox has sought to turn the allegations into a wider judicial inquiry. On 6 October, two days before Abascal’s statement, the party expanded its criminal complaint to ask Judge Santiago Pedraz to investigate a possible proposal to commit murder. It also requested testimony from Pedro Sánchez, his brother and Gallardo, along with recordings of alleged conversations with the clan.
‘PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has demanded that Sánchez explain who ordered the suspected operation against Biedma’
Those links have renewed scrutiny of Sánchez’s inner circle. In June, the UCO concluded that Díez’s references to ‘the One’ in recovered messages pointed to the prime minister; she had claimed that he praised her work through former PSOE organization secretary Santos Cerdán. Sánchez denies knowing about her activities.
Sending assassins to ‘take care’ of a judge connected to his brother’s case would indeed make Pedro Sánchez appear like the ‘capo’ Abascal depicted him as, especially when other corruption allegations surrounding Sánchez and his government are taken into account. The Supreme Court recently convicted former PSOE minister José Luis Ábalos and his aide Koldo García of offences including membership of a criminal organization, sentencing them to 24 years and three months and 19 years and eight months respectively.
On 9 October, Pedraz declined to investigate the PSOE as a legal entity, but inquiries into alleged payments to Díez and Santos Cerdán’s role remain open. PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has demanded that Sánchez explain who ordered the suspected operation against Biedma.
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