Under Polish law, González can be held in custody until he is put on trial, a process lawyers say could easily take more than a year. “I have no doubt he is not a spy,” said Juan Teixeira, a Spanish journalist who has travelled with him to many countries over a dozen years. González’s Polish lawyer, Bartosz Rogała, said he was well and had been visited by the Spanish consul. His Russian passport bears his father’s surname Rubtsov and Pavel, the Russian version of Pablo, while his Spanish passport bears his mother’s Spanish surname, González. González’s maternal grandfather had been one of thousands of Spanish children evacuated to Russia during the Spanish civil war in 1936.

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2022 00:07 UTC