Since the day the Spanish MeToo exploded in Errejón’s face like a good boy, the applause, but also the criticism, has multiplied towards the source who had made public on Instagram the testimony of a woman who accused him of sexual abuse, without giving his name. , to a famous Madrid politician. We already know what happened next. The channel through which the information reached us is the account opened by journalist Cristina Fallarás on said social network to receive this type of testimonials. The Fallarás method received blows left and right; mainly, from the extreme right, the right, the cowardly left and many respectable and intelligent people, who have shown themselves to be very judicious and temperate; among them, some feminist women and, of course, a large number of allied men.
A social network is not the place to file these complaints, that’s what police stations are for. Why do these women tell it in front of a journalist and not in front of a judge? Why did it take years to achieve this? Why do they do it anonymously? What if it was a false complaint, revenge, scapegoating, a smear campaign, a political maneuver? Are we going to participate in the annulment and lynching before the alleged culprit is tried and sentenced by the [también presuntas] guarantees granted by the legal system of our democratic system? We live in a rule of law which includes the presumption of innocence. These were the main arguments to oppose the Fallarás method. They have sowed doubt and it is a good thing that this is so: this doubt demonstrates a very laudable sense of democracy and justice.
