The Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint of sexual aggression against Juan Carlos Monedero | Spain

The Provincial Prosecutor of Pontevedra has filed on Wednesday the complaint that the Xuntos collective for Galicia He filed at the end of February against the professor and founder of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero for an alleged crime of sexual aggression. The platform presented the letter days after several accusations against the also political scientist, a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, had to have sexually abused and harassed at least three women in party environments. The news, advanced by eldiario.es and ABChe also pointed to the direction of the formation of knowing the facts in 2023 and not to open an internal investigation or separate a purse from the party activity. Xuntos by Galicia, who presented in Vigo to move to the complaint to the State Attorney General, also accused several positions of Podemos of cover -up and “a crime of omission of the duty of Socoro”: Irene Montero (Eurodiputada and at the time of the facts Minister of Equality), Ione Belarra (General Secretary) and Ángela Rodríguez, PAM (Former Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence). The Prosecutor’s Office has also filed it. Pursero has a file in the UCM for an internal complaint of a student for sexual harassment, although, for the moment the investigation is at the time.

Regarding the accusations of sexual aggressions against Monedero, the Prosecutor’s Office affirms that “attending to the story and the proceedings practiced”, the alleged victims have not denounced the facts despite the fact that the Public Ministry gave it the possibility of doing so, so “it cannot be affirmed that the acts to which they refer are clear enough to rationally maintain the imputation”. The Prosecutor’s Office points out that « the moment is unknown, the place, how they occurred and what they consisted of » the facts. « At this time they do not attend indiciarious elements on a tacita or express request for acts of a sexual nature and the physical contacts suffered, nor the alleged victims have markers of weakness or vulnerability that justify the subrogated action of the Fiscal Ministry, » says the brief, which emphasizes that the possibility that those affected may file a complaint is still open.

On the archive for the crime of cover -up, the Prosecutor’s Office affirms that « it cannot be claimed that the denounced incur some of the behaviors collected in the aforementioned precept. » And he adds that the actions of the commanders of Podemos did not assume a « favoring towards the denounced in order not to be discovered » or acted « with abuse of public functions, since we started that it is an internal procedure of a political party. »

Similarly, the Fiscal Ministry also « estimates feasible to appreciate the elements of the crime of omission of relief » because « they have not described what situation of helplessness and danger » were those affected. « As much as the complainant considers that the victim was not helped or the expected response was not given, the commission of such illicit does not imply, because the complaint is revealed rather the disagreement with the action or way of proceeding with those reported, » he concludes.

The first accusation against purse was set by the complainant on September 12, 2023 through a mail to the Secretariat of Feminisms. The author said that the expolitic was dedicated to « handling and bothering young women in party environments » and that this behavior was also known on the Somosaguas campus of the UCM, where he taught. We can activated its protocol and the letter was forwarded to the guarantees commission, which in turn offered the complainant a confidential route to initiate an internal investigation process, but, according to the training, did not obtain an answer. The second complaint was transmitted directly through members of the Directorate of Podemos. In it, the complainant asked Podemos to withdraw a purse from any organic activity.

Formation sources assured when the scandal jumped that “they acted from the first minute and took Juan Carlos Monedero from the activity of the party at the time he had knowledge of testimonies of sexual violence, in September 2023 ″. But it was not completely like that. The professor of the Complutense continued to intervene in a WhatsApp chat of the State Citizen Council (CCE), the expanding management body of the party where The decisions of the dome of Podemos discuss.

The earthquake of the Monedero case crossed the political sphere when, hours after we could admit that he knew those complaints, the Complutense University of Madrid said he had Open a file against purse for an internal complaint of sexual harassment of a student on the Somosaguas campus, where he teaches political science.

Since this last complaint was known, the accusations against the expolitic have not ceased on social networks and various means of students of the Faculty of Policies. These publications allude to what it was « Vox Populi« For years that the expolitic » tried to seduce « and harassed the students.

This scandal has uncovered The opacity with which the UCM acts Before the complaints and internal harassment complaints. He refuses to inform the cases he has known since 2016, despite the fact that the different protocols indicate that the institution must publish the number of teachers issued and the result of the research.