The Madrid court opened an investigation against Íñigo Errejón following the complaint filed by actress Elisa Mouliaá. Judicial sources explain to this newspaper that the magistrate, after receiving confirmation from Congress that he is no longer a deputy, declared himself competent and the first thing he will do, in the coming days, will be to summon Mouliaá herself so that she can declare and ratify the complaint he filed a few days ago with the Police. At this time, Errejón has not been charged or called to testify.
Last Thursday, Court number 47 in Madrid received the complaint that actress Elisa Mouliaá had presented to the police a few hours earlier. The magistrate’s first step was to ask Congress if Errejón had indeed left his deputy file, and he received an affirmative response from the lower house early in the afternoon. Judicial sources already explained that it was necessary to complete this procedure to be able to declare himself competent, since the MP’s file implies that the former Sumar spokesperson would be certified before the Supreme Court.
In his complaint, Mouliaá explained that he met and spoke with Errejón throughout 2021 and that in September of the same year they met at a party. She claims that the politician grabbed her “strongly” by the arm to “forcefully” take her into a room where he locked the door “so that she could not escape”. Errejón, according to the complaint, began “kissing and touching” the woman until he “pushed her onto the bed and removed his virile member.” Everything happened, she added, without her consent and while she was “paralyzed”.
Several testimonies from women accusing Errejón of sexist attitudes led to a statement in which the former deputy announced his resignation, without however expressly alluding to the accusations against him. From Sumar, a party of which she was parliamentary spokesperson until a few days ago, to Más Madrid, political representatives like Yolanda Díaz or Mónica García defended that they had never been aware of these sexist attitudes even if, for the moment, the scandal has resulted in the departure of Madrid MP Loreto Arenillas under the accusation, which she denies, of having concealed events that occurred during a concert in Castellón.
The judge’s roadmap is to call Mouliaá to testify to confirm her accusations against Errejón, at which time she will also be able to provide the WhatsApp messages in which, according to her, she has already told the situation she experienced to several relatives . A very common piece of evidence in sexual violence crimes in which there are rarely any witnesses beyond the victim herself, medical and injury reports, and statements made by the complainant herself at the time. events.
Multiple accusations
The first testimony with accusations of sexist attitudes against Íñigo Errejón, spokesperson for Sumar and deputy until a few days ago, was published by journalist Cristina Fallarás on her Instagram account. In the days that followed, more and more women shared their experiences with the politician, as published by elDiario.es: “Everything revolved around his desire for domination,” a woman told the newspaper who had a relationship with him for over a year. Communicator Aída Nízar also announced the filing of a police complaint against Errejón for the events that occurred in 2015.
The political crisis in Sumar y Más Madrid due to the Errejón scandal also led to the dismissal of Loreto Arenillas, member of the Madrid Assembly and close to the politician, accused of having acted “behind” the party when, in the In the summer of 2023, a woman reported online that Errejón touched his ass at a party in Castellón. Arenillas, who spoke with the young woman and described herself as a “mediator,” denied covering up any crime and criticized her party’s accusation against her.
Political leaders close to the former parliamentarian have denied knowledge of the sexist attitudes that several women are now denouncing and are investigating, for the moment, in a court in the Plaza de Castilla. “If I had known that Errejón was a suspected sex offender, I would not have been a deputy or spokesperson,” Yolanda Díaz said. Minister Mónica García said that if they had known that “it was an aggressor”, their measure would not have been to recommend “professional help”, but rather “to surrender directly to the police station.
