The defense of Javier López Madrid managed to delay until October 2025 the trial for harassment, coercion and injury against Elisa Pinto which was to take place from Monday against the businessman and also against the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. On September 23, López Madrid’s lawyer argued in vain that he had not had time to prepare for a trial whose date had been set ten months ago and, after the judge’s refusal, he presented three days later a medical report for anxiety ended for causing the trial. the hearing will be postponed for one year.
The delay in the trial of the powerful businessman and the sewer commissioner abounds in the slow pace of the trial against both. Dr. Pinto’s first complaint of alleged harassment by López Madrid dates back to October 2013, 11 years ago. The hearing was scheduled in different sessions between October 6 and 31, 2025, according to the order procedure issued by the Criminal Court number 10 of Madrid.
The Court decided to postpone the hearing despite the fact that López Madrid is represented in the case by three lawyers and after the main lawyer presented an anxiety report. The doctor who treated him didn’t even give him sick leave. He only recommended that she reduce her work and take daily anti-anxiety medication.
In the context of the trial, the lawyer for the Administration of Justice warns against new maneuvers by ensuring that “this reporting period is sufficient to be able to adequately prepare for the trial, as well as to raise all the questions which interest the parties with the necessary notice. on the commencement date, with time for its resolution and any appropriate dispute.
The proximity of the trial against López Madrid and Commissioner Villarejo had awakened movements that reproduced the most effervescent era of the police sewers and their surroundings. Eleven days before the hearing was scheduled to begin, a lawyer presented a brief to the court assuring that Villarejo’s accusation was the result of manipulation and consultation between Dr. Pinto and a commissioner, Jaime Barrado, who investigated on the harassment of women for a time.
The events that this lawyer denounces today occurred more than nine years ago, when the doctor recognized Villarejo during a photographic examination to which Commissioner Barrado summoned her. According to the plaintiff attorney, he and another attorney heard from Commissioner Barrado that it was all a setup to frame Villarejo.
The list of witnesses who will appear during the trial includes some of the most prominent members of the PP’s political brigade, including its architect, Commissioner Eugenio Pino, then operational director of the police. Or Commissioner Andrés Gómez Gordo, recently convicted in the City of Justice case and who will sit on the Operation Kitchen bench alongside Pino.
In the woman’s harassment trial, the two police officers will have to answer for maneuvers aimed at preventing Villarejo from submitting to the parade of recognition that finally took place in 2017 and which preceded his accusation for allegedly piercing the doctor three years earlier . telling him: “López Madrid wants you to shut your mouth.” The prosecution demands 13 years and two months in prison for each of the two accused, Villarejo and López Madrid.
