Armando G. Tejeda
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 26, 2024, p. 20
Madrid. Spanish actress Elisa Mouliaá filed a criminal complaint with the Spanish police for sexual harassment and assault against Íñigo Errejón, former spokesperson for the parliamentary group of the left-wing Sumar coalition and founder of the Podemos party. The young political leader, 43 years old, fled from the media that tried to ask him about the series of complaints against him, which if they are admitted by the justice system and it finds him guilty, he would face a sentence of up to five years in prison.
While suspicion grows that a good part of her party, Sumar, and close politicians knew about Errejón’s alleged abuses for more than a year, actress Mouliaá detailed to the police the situation she experienced with Errejón in September 2021, al have a relationship of friends.
According to her story, during a party at a third person’s house, after an attack of jealousy because he saw her dancing with another friend, he locked her in a bedroom, He pushed on the bed and the accused took out his virile member, beginning to lick the area of the breasts. The speaker remembers that she felt paralyzed and that she did not consent to anything that happened..
The complaint maintains that after that violent encounter, the actress received a call from her father alerting her that his one-year-old daughter had a 40-degree fever. In her complaint, the actress highlights the reaction cold and impassive of Errejón, despite his concern, not even offering her the possibility of moving her to her parents’ home.; Instead, the politician drove to his own house, where, “without saying a word, he began kissing her again while touching her. The deponent told her that she felt very uncomfortable and that she was still worried about her daughter. Everything that was happening to him was seeming very violent to him, so he finally ended up saying: ‘Íñigo, only yes it means yes, it seems unbelievable that this is happening to me with you.'”
Concealment
In the midst of the political storm, Sumar canceled a summit this weekend, which increased criticism for the alleged silence that the party leadership has maintained, including the current second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, for more than a year.
On the other hand, it emerged that Errejón has been undergoing treatment for drug and sex addiction for more than a year, as well as psychological support to control his anger attacks.
Meanwhile, the Más Madrid party yesterday expelled from the Assembly the representative Lorena Arenillas – spokesperson in the equality commission and Errejón’s chief of staff – accused of covering up for the politician and of having intervened to prevent the women allegedly raped by the politician. will file complaints. The leader assured that it is a scapegoat.
