Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has annulled a February police raid on the headquarters of Basque steelmaker Sidenor in Basauri, ruling the search was premature and disproportionate. The raid had been ordered by an investigating judge probing whether Sidenor's president and two executives committed contraband offences or complicity in crimes against humanity by selling steel to Israel Military Industries (IMSI), a weapons manufacturer — a case triggered by a complaint from a pro-Palestinian association. The court's fourth section found the search unlawful because the suspects had consistently offered to hand over documents voluntarily and because other, less intrusive investigative steps had not yet been exhausted, also warning of the risk that the investigation was becoming a broad "fishing expedition" beyond the scope of the original charges.