Juan Fernando López Aguilar's lawyer, Luisa Estévez Martínez, has sent a statement in which she claims to be "perplexed" by the "insistence" of the judge of the Court of Gender Violence Number 2 of Las Palmas, who has once again raised the case against the socialist MEP to the Supreme Court. In her press release, the lawyer recalls that the Supreme Court, in an order issued on May 5, "forced the instructor to specify punishable acts that were not affected by the effects of res judicata".
"The (new) ruling of the judge of Las Palmas ignores the request of the High Court and reiterates the same story that the Supreme Court already dismissed and rejected as vague, unspecific, imprecise and without any legal rigor," says the defense of López Aguilar.
In addition, she points out that the instructor "does not address any of the arguments of the grounds for dismissal raised by the defense, but neither does she do so with respect to the request for dismissal requested by the Public Prosecutor", which has changed its criteria after the last statement of López Aguilar's wife and after learning new facts of the case.
"The judge also ignores the evidence that no new data or element emerges from the second statement of May 22 with respect to those that had already been previously rejected by the Supreme Court", insists the lawyer, who "questions" the "motivation" of the instructor.
No accusation from the prosecutor or complaint
In addition, she emphasizes that the prosecutor's report highlights the "lack of coherence and solidity" and the "wavering position" of López Aguilar's wife, with whom he is in the process of divorce. "He defines her statements as contradictory, making it impossible to base a prognosis capable of defeating the presumption of innocence, since she has stated that she had never been subjected to mistreatment, defining Mr. López Aguilar as an excellent person and a magnificent husband and father," insists the defense.
"There is therefore no accusation by the prosecutor, nor is there any accusation or complaint filed by the allegedly affected person, who has even stated that she has asked for it to be dismissed," the lawyer stresses, who considers that "the instructor's insistence on raising the resolution of the case to the Supreme Court is surprising".
In her statement, López Aguilar's defense returns to defend the "complete innocence" of her client and "trusts" in "a prompt resolution of the Supreme Court that confirms this, as it did in the order of May 5, which ruled out any indication of persecutability or commission of any crime". In addition, she anticipates that she will "elaborate on the arguments for dismissal, trusting that these arguments will be reaffirmed by the High Court", which she hopes will definitively dismiss "a groundless case".