A year in prison for Saül Gordillo for the sexual assault of an editor, when the journalist ran an online newspaper. The judge also imposes two years of supervised release for the former director of Catalunya Ràdio for events that occurred after the staff’s company dinner, in December 2022, when the celebration was moved to a nightclub in Barcelona, the Apolo room. There, according to the ruling of the 7th Criminal Court of the city, Gordillo, already at dawn, «with the aim of satisfying their sexual desire and attacking sexual freedom“of the victim, he approached her in a “furtive manner” so that “she could not see how his right hand surreptitiously went down her back,” “he grabbed her buttocks and moved his hand looking for her vagina, without being able to reach it.” directly because the clothes she was wearing prevented her from doing so, while she held her drink with her left hand.
The ruling, against which there is an appeal, points out that at that moment, while the editor was ordering a drink at the bar, “he approached her again from behind and with his left hand under the leg of her shorts.” , and he reached her vagina, and placed his fingers between her stockings and shorts, with the intention of masturbating her. After what happened, points out the judge, the journalist «continued at the bar, in a clear cognitive dissociation». Then he went with Gordillo to one of the dance floors, and, a few minutes later, “he reacted and when he met other colleagues he assumed what had happened, with an obvious state of nervousness, anxiety and confusion” and explained to them what he had experienced. had happened.
The next day, the complainant went to a health center with symptoms of anxiety and was prescribed an anxiolytic. There he returned 24 hours later, and they discharged him, “due to the psychological impact of what happened.” As the sentence considers proven, the editor “has suffered post-traumatic stress disorderpresenting anguish, emotional overflow, acute sadness, intrusive and circular thoughts, sleeping difficulties, hunger disturbances, and irritability, with feelings of guilt and shame”, for which he has received medical treatment.
After this conviction, Gordillo still has a second trial pending, for which the FThe prosecutor’s office demands four years in prisonfor an alleged sexual assault on another editor, the same night.
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