The Prosecutor’s Office filed the complaint of the Complutense against Monedero for the « behavior » with their students | Spain

The Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid has filed a second open investigation against Juan Carlos Monedero, founder of Podemos and professor of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) For the « behavior » that the politician had with some students who attended the classes he taught in the academic year 2021-2022. As reported through a statement, the Public Ministry concludes that its attitude « is not constituting a crime against moral integrity », without offering details of the behavior under suspicion, which comes to qualify as « out of place » and « morally reproachable »

Last week, the Prosecutor’s Office He already filed another complaint filed by the Xuntos collective by Galicia against Monedero for Sexual Aggression. In that case, three positions of we can cover up and “omission of the duty of Socoro” were accused, but there was also a folder to the investigations for all of them: Irene Montero (Eurodiputada and former minister of equality), Ione Belarra (current general secretary of the party) and Ángela Rodríguez, alias alias PAM (Former Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence).

In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office explains that he received on April 10, 2025 a “communication” of the UCM to transfer a disciplinary file open to the founder of Podemos. However, after analyzing the complaint, he considers that « the facts described do not have enough entity to consider them as a degrading and serious attack against the moral integrity of the students. »

The text of the Public Ministry continues: “The referred jurisprudence requires that the conduct, to be declared serious, in addition to being repeated must cover a plus of devaluation, understanding this plus as the one that can create in the victims feelings of terror, of anguish and inferiority, susceptible to humiliating them, of debase and breaking them moral, being out of criminal repression the merely improper behaviors, such as what happens in the present case ”.

« The behaviors collected in the complaint consist of expressions referred individually to different students, not stating that such expressions and behaviors were repeated with respect to each of those, » adds the Prosecutor’s Office, which admits that these attitudes « can be qualified as inappropriate, inadmissible, out of place and morally reproachable, especially who is already dedicated to teaching who is already demanding a certain social responsibility. transmit ethical values ​​”. « But not all degrading treatment will be punishable, but only the most harmful, » he says.