The Prosecutor’s Office requests four years in prison for journalist Saül Gordillo in his second case for sexual assault

The Prosecutor’s Office requests four years in prison for journalist Saül Gordillo in his second case for sexual assault of a worker. The Public Ministry accuses the former director of the newspaper ‘Principal’ of having sex without consent with an editor after the Christmas dinner of the newspaper that Gordillo directed, ‘Principal’, in 2022.

In her writing, the prosecutor highlights that the victim was “without the ability to react” during the sexual assault due to the previous intake of alcoholic beverages and benzodiazepines, although the investigation has not been able to determine how this last chemical substance ended up in the body. of the woman.

What the indictment does make clear is that the victim presented “obvious symptoms” of being under the influence of alcohol on the night of the events, and that Gordillo would have taken advantage of this to have sex without consent. The journalist, who in addition to being her boss was several years older than the complainant, has been defending that they were consensual relationships.

The chronology recounted by the Prosecutor’s Office begins at the company’s Christmas dinner and at the subsequent party at the Apolo nightclub (where the first complaint against Gordillo for non-consensual touching of another worker occurred). After consuming several alcoholic drinks, Gordillo offered to take the employee by taxi to the parking lot where she had parked her car to take her home. It was in Gordillo’s car where the Prosecutor’s Office located the attack.

“Taking advantage of the fact that the victim had no ability to react or move as a result of the state he was in” due to alcohol intake, Gordillo had sex without consent with the editor. In addition to the prison sentence, the Prosecutor’s Office demands six years of supervised freedom for Gordillo and compensation of 10,000 euros to the victim.

In his first trial for sexual assault, which will be held in November, the Prosecutor’s Office is demanding a fine of 9,000 euros from the journalist for touching an employee of the newspaper he directed without consent, a request for a penalty that the victim’s private accusation raises. to four years.