Íñigo Errejón arrived at the Plaza de Castilla courts around 11:44 a.m. this Thursday to testify for . It was the first time that Sumar’s former spokesperson was seen on a street in Madrid since the scandal of anonymous complaints on networks accusing him of sexual assault on October 24 led to the politician’s resignation. While dozens of cameras pounced on one of the founders of Podemos, the actress and presenter Elisa Mouliaá, gave a statement before the judge of Court number 47 to ratify her complaint. To date, the only formal one against Errejón. “It is a long-awaited day for me. And it is a day that I face with full confidence in the actions of justice. And thirdly, I want to make it clear that I come here today to defend my innocence,” the former deputy declared as he entered the back of the building.
For her part, Mouliaá, who was summoned an hour and a half earlier by the judge, has decided not to make any statement to the media that were waiting for her (more than twenty). “I can’t talk now, I’m sorry,” he managed to mention a few minutes before entering the premises. With all the focus on her, which she exposed in her complaint and influencing the psychological damage that this episode caused her, according to what her lawyer tells this newspaper. In addition, the lawyer intends to request new proceedings, such as taking statements from witnesses who were at the party that night and from the therapist who has been treating the woman for two years.
Judicial protocols in cases of sexual assault establish that the complainant and the accused cannot cross paths in the courtroom or in the hallways. For this reason, both have been scheduled an hour and a half apart: she at 11 in the morning and he at 12:30. In addition, Judge Adolfo Carretero has granted a period of a few minutes of courtesy to the accused so that he can review Mouliáá’s statement before giving his own, as confirmed by judicial sources. Also, a room is planned on another floor of the building so that the complainant can wait for her lawyer until the politician finishes testifying without there being any risk of meeting him.
Elisa Mouliaá tried to delay the statement that the judge finally set for this Thursday, after Errejón’s defense insisted on speeding up the process. On November 11, the investigator of the case, Adolfo Carretero, because Mouliaá’s lawyer at the time (she has changed lawyers three times since the complaint), Carla Vall, presented a medical document in which she explained that she could not take charge at that time. moment due to her maternity and requested a postponement. At that time, Carretero admitted it, but Errejón’s lawyer, Eva Gimbernat, filed an appeal against this decision, alleging that Mouliaá could appoint another lawyer because Vall was already on maternity leave when she was hired to represent her in this case. The judge accepted their arguments, although the actress’s lawyer had not yet requested the discharge. The case was reopened on December 12 and a new date was set to hear Mouliaá and Errejón. The complainant appointed a new lawyer, Alfredo Arrién Paredes, who accompanied her to court this Thursday.
In the complaint that Mouliaá will ratify this Thursday, it was detailed that everything happened one night in September 2021. Both had attended a party together and, according to the woman’s story, the 40-year-old politician sexually assaulted her by kissing her. without her consent when they were going up in the elevator and, later, he put her in a room of the house, closed the door latch and touched her numerous times without her consent, even removing “his virile member.” Afterwards, they drove to Errejón’s home and there he tried to have sexual relations again, at which point she criticized his behavior and reproached him for making her feel uncomfortable and violated.
According to the agents’ complaint, the alleged triple episode of sexual violence occurred after she attended the presentation of a book by Errejón. [el político presentó Con todo. De los años veloces al futuro en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid el 22 de septiembre de aquel año]; a meeting in which, the victim emphasizes, “always maintained a correct attitude.” Until then, both did not know each other personally, although they had been exchanging messages for a year through the social network Instagram and the instant messaging application Telegram. At the end of the public event, she invited him to go together to a party that two friends of the actress were holding in an apartment in Madrid.
Upon arriving at the building and when they were going up in the elevator, he began to kiss her “inserting his tongue inside her mouth, leaving her breathless and in a violent manner,” so that she already felt “very intimidated.” The actress says that once at the party they both “danced, drank and chatted” with other attendees, and that at a certain moment she began to dance with a friend and that she believes that this fact “must have produced an attack of jealousy” in Errejón. , who “grabbed her tightly by the arm and forcibly took her for about six meters, down a hallway, until he introduced her into a room of the house.” Once inside, “he closed the door with a bolt, to prevent the speaker from [la denunciante] could escape, starting to kiss and touch the client in different parts of the body, especially the area of the breasts and buttocks. […] without the consent of the declarant,” continue the agents who took her statement.
