The request of the Prosecutor's Office to re-open the investigation into the case of Eric Abidal's liver transplant is going to leave someone in a bad place.

This insistence, after the National Transplant Organisation and the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona endorsed the thesis of Barcelona's current technical secretary, in addition to the testimonies of the two doctors, published in La Vanguardia, is surprising.

Either they have information that no one else has, or they are willing to delay in time or want to write their own chronicle of a case that, due to its harshness, should be polished off quickly.

It would be useful to clarify everything quickly and in a concise manner. Not only is Abidal's honour at stake, as he even showed a photo in a room next to his cousin Gerard, the supposed donor, but also the health system in Spain and the reputation of several agencies to which the citizens' trust is delivered are being questioned.

It would be very hard, beyond Barcelona, if everything that seems to be faithfully corroborated until now, is going to be blown up. Among other things because it is a crime and because the trafficking of organs on the black market has more to do with the dead than with the living.

If nothing from this stands, however, the prosecution should offer an apology.