The tension that has been experienced for years in the world of Lanzarote chess has reached the Courts, with a complaint for slander against the former island delegate of the Federation, Lorenzo Lemaur, who has even described the situation on the island as a "civil war".
The complainant is chess player Nayra Barrera, from the Tablero de Guanapay Chess Club, who demands that Lorenzo Lemaur pay 20,000 euros "for the damages caused" and another 10,000 euros "for damages".
For the moment, the Court of First Instance Number 1 of Arrecife has already summoned Lemaur on May 26 to a conciliation hearing, which is the step prior to the filing of a lawsuit, in case an agreement is not reached.
In addition to the compensation, Barrera demands that Lemaur apologize to her and other "players, mothers and even minors", for the comments he has sent through WhatsApp and published on social networks.
She was described as "dangerous" and a "psychiatric report" was recommended.
"I recommend to mothers and fathers of the children to whom she gives chess lessons to request a psychiatric report before putting their children in the hands of this woman. It could be dangerous", said Lorenzo Lemaur in an opinion article published on Facebook, in which he attacked Nayra Barrera.
Along with this, in the writing registered in the Courts, the chess player reproduces other extracts from Lemaur's publications against her. "Playing chess well is not synonymous with being a good person, unfortunately. The one who has been the island's female champion in recent years, Nayra Barrera, demonstrates on every occasion in which a chess event is held in Lanzarote her lack of empathy, her contempt and disregard for everything that is not done by her and her absolute inability, as well as a lack of intention to establish channels of understanding for the improvement of chess in Lanzarote", he added in that same article published in September 2021, on the Facebook page of Chess in Lanzarote.
In another publication, he even described the people responsible for Tablero de Guanapay, of which Nayra Barrera is a part, and those of the CIAL Chess Club as "chess terrorists". "They have been in an absurd civil war for two years that could be described as terrorist for Lanzarote chess and its practitioners", Lemaur sentenced in that writing, in which he accused Barrera of being behind this situation, "orchestrating from the trenches".
The chess player went to the Courts on March 7 requesting that Lorenzo Lemaur - who was also a councilor of Arrecife for the PP - be summoned to a conciliation hearing, prior to the filing of the lawsuit "for an alleged continued crime of serious slander with publicity".
