Judicial scandal on the eve of the electoral contest in the PP of Catalonia.

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) is holding an investigation open against the deputy in Parliament and general secretary of the Catalan PP Daniel Serrano for a crime of sexual assault and two others for minor injuries.

Supposedly he would have committed them on a colleague of the party leadership, the secretary of the Equality area and member of the Executive Committee of the PP in Catalonia, co

n the one who had "a sentimental relationship without commitment to coexistence and with sporadic sexual relations" that began in 2015 and ended 2016, without being explained to anyone around him. The complaint filed by the victim, first before a Violence Court about Woman number 2 of Barcelona, ​​although the case was referred to the Court of Instruction number 30 of Barcelona, ​​considering that there was no relationship between a couple, it indicates that at that time the accused allegedly subjected his party partner to "physical, verbal abuse and psychics ".

Thus it is indicated that between March and June he caused slight injuries, which caused bruises in the woman, while they had sexual intercourse, and that later she asked him for explanations by mobile phone message but that "he avoided giving." In his complaint to the Judged, the woman thought that these violent episodes were "exceptions" due to the personal and political relationship they had, since in public she did not have such violent behavior.

However, the victim denounced that on November 13, 2016 the defendant "without consent or prior agreement" forced her in a violent way, maintaining a relationship of violent and aggressive sex "at her home.

As a result of this sexual assault, the woman suffered injuries that caused bruises and erosions, as photographed and accompanied in the complaint, and which took weeks to heal.

As on previous occasions, he also asked his party partner for explanations and he did not want to give them to her. Despite this, in May 2017 "taking advantage of a political meeting", the person in charge of Equality of the PP returned to ask him for explanations this time personally "and according to the woman, the accused "threatened" to make her life impossible "both on a political and personal level" if she denounced him. In this sense, the complaint states that in this meeting, the general secretary of the Catalan PP accused her "of wanting to blackmail him by downplaying the injuries "as well as his" aggressive and violent behavior in sexual relations "ensuring that the photos were not of them, but" downloaded from the internet. "" I am a lawyer and cases like yours I have taken 600 and the I won.

You see what worries me, "says the complaint that the accused told his colleague from political training. After this meeting, the woman affirmed that she has been subjected" to 'bullying' within the party, not being summoned to the meetings of the Executive Committee of Catalonia ", despite the fact that he occupies a secretariat, and remarks that neither was he notified of" any act. "Precisely, the victim was slow to report the sexual assault due to fear caused by the control within the Catalan PP that The defendant exercises, although more cases could appear according to various sources. The Court of Instruction number 30 of Barcelona sent the case to the TSJC at the end of last year, since the defendant is measured by his status as a deputy in the Parliament, and, after A report in favor of the Prosecutor's Office when finding evidence of a crime, proceedings were opened to hear the statement of Serrano, who is in the fourth position of the PP's candidacy for Barcelona in the next regional elections.

ral of the Catalan PP appeared before the court as investigated in mid-December and explained that the sexual relations with the victim were consensual, in addition to not causing any injury to the woman.

The investigation remains open since the investigating magistrate has requested numerous tests, such as the dumping of the messages between the accused and the victim as well as medical reports.

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