Journalist Cristina Fallarás has warned that the movement that arose after she published an anonymous accusation of gender violence against former Sumar deputy Iñigo Errejón on her Instagram account "is the tip of the iceberg" and has acknowledged that they are using other channels than the police and judges.
Hours before participating in the forum Literature is Feminine, in Tenerife, Fallarás indicated that Errejón's case "is the first case that has come out" but she has been "receiving stories for many, many months" from women who suffer sexual violence.
"And why now (has the case of the former Sumar spokesperson exploded)?" she asked: "because little by little we are moving forward. The advancement of women is slow because we are using tools that are not those of the patriarchy, it is not the police and the courts. There are other channels, which are new and take time."
Fallarás emphasized that these days "things are happening that were not happening before, and that is that the story of women, for example, brings down political leaders."
Because everything arose, she insisted, "not from a complaint, but from a story."
However, she has warned of the "hatred" that is being poured against actress Elisa Mouliáa, who is living "an ordeal", after formally reporting Errejón to the Police.
She stressed that when a woman gives "a story" they suggest that she report it, and when she does, they call her "slut." "Then they wonder why we don't report it," she slipped, and criticized that "the most likely thing is that this case will not reach any court of violence against women" because there was no stable relationship between them.
Two more women are considering reporting Errejón to the Police Station
Even so, she added, two more women have told her this weekend of their intention to report Iñigo Errejón to the Police.
Be that as it may, what is clear is that "what bothers them is that we speak, wherever and however. But they have a problem: we started talking with the Me Too in 2017, with the Tell it in 2018... women have started talking, telling each other stories, and it's not going to stop. I don't see any way they can stop the voice of women now," she asserted.
Cristina Fallarás has insisted that she is receiving "a lot" of stories of sexual violence "linked to power, to men with power: from the media, many, many; from parties, unions, business and big business, schools and institutes, the university...".
They all have in common that they "touch the areas of power" and serve to create "identification mechanisms that other women can cling to to report, to feel accompanied and, above all, to know that they are not the only ones suffering from that."
Asked if there is any kind of screening or prior verification before publishing the stories of sexual violence that are coming to her, she said that there is no such process because "who wants to lie, get up in the morning, instead of having a coffee with a muffin, say that my father was molesting me?" she asked.
"The idea that there may be lies in these stories is the most far-fetched and any woman will understand it perfectly," argued Cristina Fallarás.
Cristina Fallarás made these statements accompanied by the former Tenerife politician Dulce Xerach Pérez, organizer of the Literature is Feminine conference and who denounced in 2018 that she was the victim of harassment by a person with "political power" who closed many doors to her "for saying no."
Pérez explained that in her day she regretted that "she could not tell it" although others did it for her, and now "it is not that I can, it is that I don't want to. I have gotten rid of that and it has been thanks to writing," she also said.
She stressed that she did not suffer any sexual abuse but because "I said no," and that what she suffered was "a continuous abuse of power and a veto to all the things that I could have achieved in politics and I did not achieve, which I am glad about after time."
