THE PROVISION THAT IGNITES THE MACHINERY

Between the autumn of 2017 and the autumn of 2018 the proceedings advanced towards trial. And when the hearing was already on the horizon, the "non-location" machinery — the same one a judge had dismantled in hours — was switched back on. This time, with method.

On 23 October 2018, a provision of the First Section of the Provincial Court of Bizkaia set the sequence in motion (DOC-0145, p. 88). What followed was a timed escalation this Story will document piece by piece: within a week, the public prosecution would request the European Arrest Warrant; within five weeks, INTERPOL would be activated; within ten, Apolozan would be in prison; within fourteen, seated in the dock as the "fugitive" who never fled.

To assess that sequence one must recall what meanwhile appeared in the public registers: his address was in the AEAT system — certified by the Agency itself that same year, 2018 (DOC-0226) —, his life was the same as ever, and in the hundred-odd pages of the deployment that follows there will not be a single home-address inquiry: not one query to the municipal register, to the National Statistics Institute, or to the tax registers any court consults in minutes.

They were not seeking to locate a man. They were preparing the scene for a role someone had already written for him.