Less than 24 hours after the case against socialist MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar for an alleged crime of mistreatment became public, the alleged victim has given an interview to Vanity Fair. In the interview, Natalia de la Nuez does not confirm or deny that these physical or verbal aggressions have occurred, although she suggests that they have existed, while clarifying that neither she nor her family have filed a complaint.
"When did the alleged mistreatment begin?", she is asked at one point in the interview. "That's irrelevant... even if it was five days ago," replies López Aguilar's still wife, with whom she has been in the process of separation for months. What she does talk about openly is the alleged relationship that the MEP had with another woman when they were still together. "A year and a half ago I discovered that there was another person in his life, so in October 2014 I filed a divorce agreement," she explains.
Regarding the beginning of this case, her version coincides with that of López Aguilar himself, who in a statement made public this Tuesday spoke of two fires that occurred in what was the family home, when he no longer lived there. As a result of one of them, according to his ex-wife, the police began an investigation, given that there were minors in the house, and it was when talking to the neighbors that they supposedly found indications of alleged physical or verbal abuse by the MEP.
Regarding López Aguilar, his still wife (pending the signing of the divorce), states that he is "a poor tormented man". "He causes me a lot of compassion," she says in the interview. To other questions about whether there really was mistreatment, she replies that they had "a complicated relationship" and that "all divorce processes have their complicated, violent and aggressive part."
