First modification:
The UK court ruled that the Spanish royal has immunity to prior events before his 2014 abdication, including in this case, where his ex-lover Corinna Larsen accuses him of alleged acts of harassment dating from before that date. . The decision is supported by the fact that British courts do not have jurisdiction to try the then King of Spain.
The Spanish king emeritus, Juan Carlos I, had good news in the case of harassment denounced by his ex-lover, Corinna Larsen, after this Tuesday, December 6, the United Kingdom justice determined immunity for the events prior to his abdication 2014, including the actions for which he is charged.
This decision was issued by the Court of Appeal for England and Wales and supersedes the opinion of the High Court in London. The latter, last March, had decided to bring the emeritus to trial.
However, the trial will take place -probably in mid-2023-, but today’s ruling excludes some of the most severe acts for the monarch’s cause, especially the alleged harassment and espionage maneuvers directed by Félix Sanz Roldán, then chief of the National Intelligence Center.
The ruling, ordered by Judge Ingrid Simler and supported by Judges Eleanor King and Andrew Popplewell, maintains that the actions of Juan Carlos I between April 2012 and June 2014 did not belong to his private sphere and are outside the possibilities of the British courts.
The interpretation was that the actions carried out by Sanz Roldán were “under the direction or with the consent”, something that is within the power of immunity of the emeritus.
“It was only the position of head of state that allowed Juan Carlos to get the head of the state security service to act in the alleged manner, using the CNI, whatever his private motives, and however abusive they were,” he pointed out. simler.
This leaves out of the trial the movements of Sanz Roldán when he coordinated a secret operation to invade and search the office and the apartment that the plaintiff had in Monaco.
Also excluded were the threats that he apparently launched against the complainant in a London hotel in 2012 where he told her that “he could not guarantee her physical safety or that of her children.”
Larsen’s defense was firm despite Simler’s decision and assured that only a small part of the complaint has been left out and that “most of the demand, as of 2014, is not affected.”
Attorney Michael Kim reiterated through a statement that the allegations are “very serious” regarding harassment that “continued for a long time” and warned that they will be “examined in detail when the trial takes place.”
With EFE and local media
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