Juan Carlos I undertakes legal actions against former Cantabrian President Revilla for « slanderous expressions » | Spain

Juan Carlos I, former head of the State of Spain and current king emeritus, has undertaken legal actions against Miguel Ángel Revilla, former president of Cantabria and regional deputy, for the alleged “slanderous and insulting expressions” poured by the politician between “May 2022 and January 2025”. The lawyer chosen by the exmoncaca – the same one that represents in other causes to Alberto González Amador, Isabel Díaz Díaz Ayuso boyfriendPresident of the Community of Madrid – has announced the initiative through a statement, where Revilla comments are not detailed that, they assure, attempt against their « honor. » After knowing the news, the zarzuela has marked distances and insists that it is a « personal initiative » of King Emeritus, on which she has not been « consulted. »

In his statement, the defense of Juan Carlos I advances the first steps that he has taken “in the exercise of civil actions for the protection of the right to honor”. According to his lawyer, Guadalupe Sánchez, before submitting the corresponding lawsuit, has requested the celebration of an act of conciliation before the Courts of First Instance of Santander. « In addition to requesting the rectification through the same means and publicly, my represented claims to Revilla for compensation for the damages caused by 50,000 euros, which will be donated entirely to the official confederation of charitable and social action entities of the Catholic Church (Cáritas España), » he rivets.

Juan Carlos I currently belongs to the Casa del Rey, made up of six members: Felipe VI, his wife Letizia Ortiz, his daughters and his parents. However, as this institution details through a message, King Emeritus has not consulted the decision to take legal actions against Revilla. And, in that line, he adds that, therefore, it is a personal initiative of the former head of the State « through his private lawyers. »

The Cantabria Regionalist Party (PRC), to which Revilla belongs, has announced that the former president will offer a press conference this Wednesday, at 10.00.

With this decision, the exmonca is placed again in the fore. The Prosecutor’s Office already investigated him for corruption and, although he filed his inquiries in March 2022, he found indications of alleged tax crimes, money laundering and bribery. The Public Ministry concluded that he had to give folder to his inquiries because various behaviors of the emeritus king were prescribed; Others could not be pursued because they were committed when it was armored by the inviolability granted by the Constitution as head of state; and others, perpetrated after 2014 (donations of money not declared from the beginning of the Spanish hacienda), they should be without criminal reproach by the millionaire tax regularizations presented by Juan Carlos I.

Miguel Ángel Revilla, president of Cantabria for more than 15 years and habitual commentator of the media, has made various valuations on it since then. For example, last December, he pronounced these words in the sixth: “It is very strong that a state chief has declared a state parrot ».

« We already know that he has an immense fortune outside of Spain, we knew it for a long time. He gave Corinna 60 million and that had it outside, but I think that is the tip of the iceberg, there will be much more, » he said in October 2024. And, in March of last year, he also said the following: « This man is in the Arab countries enjoying the money that they have nurtured abundantly. »

In May 2022, Revilla had El Hormiguero: “King emeritus committed a rul He gave his intimate friend 65, A Corinna (…) Is it so generous? Or do we have to think that it is so much what it has, that it has more than 1,000, that 65 after all is a bad day? Where did you make the mistake? When he claimed the other lady to return it. And the lady said: ‘Santa Rita, Rita, what is given is not removed.’ I am against the corrupt. I have not stolen in my life and I am not a fraudsman (…) this man at Christmas made us a call to be all the same and to be taxpayers. That’s why I’m against him. ”