[raxxorraxor]

Ridiculous to demand a fine from him being the victim of bad surveillance.

Snapchat text is often used to prosecute people, I think the message being forwarded is a likely explanation, despite chats not being thoroughly encrypted and the article saying it would be unlikely. Could have been an anonymous tip.

[01acheru]

My exact thought. If the Spanish prosecutors want somebody to pay for those expenses it should be the British gov or whatever other agency as it is the same as if I warned the police of some fake bomb threat.

[raxxorraxor]

Certainly. Of course then governments would share less information if they are culpable for any false positives. But penalizing the wrongly accused is a special way of worsening an already significant fuckup.