KO Books, the publisher of the book, has confirmed the news: Fariña can be sold again in bookstores because the Provincial Court of Madrid has accepted the appeal filed by the publisher. Members of the publishing house requested the removal of the embargo imposed on the book in their appeal to the court.

The author of the book celebrates the decision on Twitter: Finally, he writes "Back to normal" in Spanish and "Fariña libre" in Galician.

In parallel with this decision, the trial related to the case was held on Thursday in a court in Collado Villalba (Madrid, Spain). José Alfredo Bea Gondar, former mayor of O Grove (Galicia), took the book to the stands, denouncing that Carretero had committed a crime against his honor. Bea Gondar appears in a few lines of the book, among eleven other cases related to drug trafficking; but this brief appearance was enough to obtain precautionary measures against the book and exclude it from bookstores for three months.

In Thursday’s trial, the prosecutor’s office has also shown opposition to the book’s abduction and has called for the case to be dropped. He also pointed out that the book should add some detail in future editions: In Arabic of what Carretero wrote in Fariña, Bea Gondar was prosecuted in two drug trafficking cases; the prosecutor believes that the book would also say that he was acquitted in both cases.

The former mayor who filed the lawsuit seeks compensation of half a million euros from the publishing house Libros del KO for linking his name to drug trafficking.