The judge asks Congress if Errejón has left the record and can investigate him for the sexual assault complaint

A Madrid court has taken the first step to investigate Iñigo Errejón after actress Elisa Mouliaá filed a complaint against him for sexual assault. The magistrate of Court 47 of Madrid has written to the Congress of Deputies in order for the lower house to confirm that Errejón is no longer a deputy and that, therefore, he is not qualified before the Supreme Court and can be investigated by an ordinary court. . The magistrate’s move comes after the Judicial Police Brigade sent the testimony of the affected woman to court number 47 in Plaza de Castilla in Madrid.

Congressional sources explain to elDiario.es that the chamber will respond to the magistrate this Monday, communicating that Sumar’s former spokesperson is no longer a parliamentarian and that, therefore, he has lost his capacity. Once he receives the response, the judge will declare himself competent and decide whether or not to open criminal proceedings against Iñigo Errejón for sexual crimes. The former politician left his record effectively last Thursday.

The complaint states that both met at a party in September 2021 a few hours after meeting in person. Mouliaá claims that the politician grabbed her “strongly” by the arm to take her “by force” to a room whose door he locked “so that she could not escape.” Errejón, according to the complaint, began to “kiss and touch” the woman until “he pushed her onto the bed and took out his virile member.” Everything happened, she added, without her consent and while she was “paralyzed.”

The testimony of this actress and presenter was known a few hours after Iñigo Errejón announced his resignation from all his public and political positions. In a statement, the former deputy and spokesperson for Sumar in Congress did not make direct reference to any accusation of sexist attitudes or sexual violence and claimed to have reached “the limit” of “the contradiction between the character and the person.”

In recent days, various testimonies have emerged from women who accuse the former politician: “Everything was about his desire to dominate,” a woman who had a relationship with Errejón for just over a year explained to elDiario.es. From Sumar, the party whose parliamentary spokesperson he held until a few days ago, they have admitted failures of “detection and prevention” in their case and have apologized, also announcing “protocols for preventing and addressing situations of harassment and sexual assault.”