The trial against Miguel Ángel Frontera, investigated for harassing Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero at the doors of their home between May and December 2020, when they were vice president of the Government and Minister of Equality respectively, has been heard for sentencing this Monday. The hearing was held more than two and a half years after the investigating magistrate of the case, Javier Carreño, decided to open an oral trial against Frontera, to whom the crimes of serious insults, harassment, revelation of secrets and coercion are attributed. continued. In their statement, the former leader of Podemos and the current head of the party’s list for the European elections have recounted the “situation of anguish” and “fear” that they experienced throughout the duration of the harassment, and that plunged them into a “state of of permanent stress and nerves.” Upon his arrival at Criminal Court number 14 in Madrid, there were moments of tension when a group of people rebuked them.
Frontera faces a tax request of three years in prison and a fine of 13,800 euros. Iglesias and Montero ask, for their part, that a sentence of one and a half years in prison and a fine of 9,000 euros be imposed, in addition to compensation of 10,000 euros to each of them “for moral damages.”
In his statement, the former vice president detailed how the incidents of harassment interfered with his daily life without him or Montero being able to “request leave,” due to the position they held in the Government, which was facing the crisis due to the pandemic at that time. of covid-19. “They insulted at any time, any trip with the children or to take the dogs involved unpleasant logistics,” said Iglesias, who recounted how, for example, one afternoon, while bathing his children, he saw a person who was climbing a rock recording. The former leader has also said that on his birthday the defendant jumped over the perimeter and told him: “Congratulations, son of a bitch,” statements that Frontera denies. The harassment forced them, according to his story, to change their personal and work routines and caused them to fear. In Montero’s words, the situation caused them a “permanent state of stress and nerves,” since every day the accused “crossed another red line.” “It was evident that he could do anything,” added the former minister.
The accused has defended that it was “a political protest in mockery, in mockery of the contradictions of Mr. Iglesias”, who in the past had defended making caceroladas and escraches to people like the King.
“This is the spearhead of unprecedented media and political violence against two Podemos ministers and also against a political formation to prevent social progress. I want to remind you that in those months there were extreme right-wing pamphlets that came to promote this harassment, but there were also media presenters asking for pilgrimages to come to our house,” Montero denounced in statements to the media early in the morning. . “It is not serious just because two Podemos ministers were harassed for months and months at their home, but because of what it represents for Spanish democracy. I hope there is no impunity and it does not happen again. “If these were PP and PSOE ministers, this would not have happened,” Iglesias stressed.
A small group of protesters confronted both in the street, before the trial began. A man has addressed the former vice president, both separated by the court fence, and has insulted him by shouting “disgusting”, “he sells workers” or “shitty Vallecano”, among other expletives. Montero and Iglesias finally approached the protesters and she called them “harassments and fascists.”
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