"I simulated a kiss, without any problem. I think it's a joke , I've done it on many occasions with other people." The intercom quotation is part of the statement that this Thursday has given the Sevillian businessman Manuel Muñoz before the court that judges him for an attack and a crime against moral integrity against the coordinator of Podemos in Andalusia and parliamentarian, Teresa Rodríguez, to whom he has asked Sorry "if you felt offended."

Muñoz, who faces a one-year and nine-month jail sentence request, has admitted at the Provincial Court of Seville that when he met Rodriguez he approached her and pretended to kiss him by putting his hand between his mouth and his The parliamentarian It happened on December 20, 2016 at the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce of Seville, that day celebrated its traditional Christmas cup.

At the door of the president's office, Muñoz explained, he was introduced to the leader of Podemos in Andalusia and he spent a "joke", regarding which he has specified that at no time he put his hand in his mouth and that neither He grabbed or pushed. Moreover, he added, after simulating that kiss he gave a business card and Rodriguez went "normal in every way."

Although he has insisted that he was not aware that this episode could humiliate the parliamentarian, he has told the court that "I apologize as many times as necessary."

Muñoz's version coincides little with that given by Rodriguez herself, who has reiterated that she felt "very humiliated " by the businessman's performance, that he "pushed" and "cornered" her without a word. It happened, he said to questions of the prosecutor Fátima Domínguez, "of sopetón".

"He put a hand on the back of my neck, a hand on his mouth and kissed his hand," he said, specifying that he had to step back and that he was "absolutely blocked ." "I felt ashamed of myself and fear," added the political leader, who said he could not react and that was the most frustrating.

That and the rest of the people who were present, with the exception of the chief of protocol of the Chamber of Commerce, did not express any rejection , although later the president of the institution apologized.

"It was an aggression, a humiliation, I felt an object among those gentlemen," he said, noting that he had the feeling that "Mr. Muñoz had very long arms."

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