• Courts Juana Rivas' ex-husband asks Irene Montero and Íñigo Errejón to retract their "insults and slander" and pay him 140,000 euros

  • Ruling The Supreme Court halves Juana Rivas's sentence for child abduction, who remains in two and a half years in prison

The European Commission is investigating whether the Spanish government has contravened a European directive that prohibits the authorities of a country from holding public demonstrations about ongoing legal proceedings, blaming accused persons prematurely.



Specifically, the

General Directorate of Justice and Consumption

has opened a file to determine if Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, violated

European Directive 343/2016

by calling

Francesco Arcuri an

"abuser"

, the ex-husband of the Spanish Juana Rivas, during the judicial procedure in which the Granada-born mother was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Supreme Court for kidnapping her children, while none of Rivas's complaints against Arcuri for alleged mistreatment prospered, neither in

Spain

nor in

Italy

.



The opening of the procedure by the European Commission occurs at the request of Arcuri, after several public statements by Montero occurred in recent months before the final conviction of Rivas before the Supreme Court, for abducting the two children of the father's partner between 2016 and 2017, failing to comply with repeated judicial warnings about the kidnapping.



It should be noted that the process that the Commission is now opening, certifying said opening with a document sent to Arcuri's Spanish lawyer,

Enrique Zambrano

, to which this newspaper has had access, may end either with a request for harmonization of Spanish legislation to the European, or with a sanction to the Government for violating community regulations, but never with a fine to Montero.



That route is already being explored by Arcuri with reconciliations requested, in Spain, from Montero and the deputy Íñigo Errejón, so that they retract from having branded him an "abuser" and pay him

140,000 euros

(80,000 her and 60,000 him), which the Italian citizen would hand over to orphan children's associations, has assured. In the absence of such retractions, Arcuri would sue them for insults and slander.



In Europe, the Italian invokes the directive which states, literally, that "Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, as long as the guilt of a suspect or accused has not been proven in accordance with the law, the public statements made by the public authorities and judicial decisions other than conviction do not refer to that person as guilty. "



His lawyer, Zambrano, points to

EL MUNDO

that "the most serious thing is that these demonstrations have not even taken place with open judicial procedures": none of Rivas's complaints against Arcuri even managed to open any procedure.


"You have to defend Juana Rivas"


Montero, for example, made statements to this effect in an intervention at a public event in

Zaragoza

on June 21. He said verbatim: "There are no words to explain the suffering of Juana Rivas. What can be done to prevent these sexist murders, this violence against women. Well, I want to make it very clear: to prevent abusers from continuing to murder and exert violence against Boys and girls who are direct victims of sexist violence, to give where it hurts the most to their mothers, Juana Rivas must be defended. "



And he added, referring to Arcuri: "Juana Rivas must also be defended when the feminist movement says 'Juana is in my house', when the feminist movement comes out to protect Juana Rivas. There is a patriarchal justice that penalizes and criminalizes women mothers who are defending themselves and especially their daughters from sexist violence by their partner or ex-partner ".



Arcuri accepted in 2009 a sentence of three months in prison for injuries to his then partner in events in which both were injured, as the parts of both, published by EL MUNDO demonstrated. The two continued together until in 2016, when she took their children to Spain, never to return to the family home in Sardinia.



Since then, despite denouncing dozens of times of mistreatment by her now ex-husband, none of these actions by Rivas have prospered, and the Italian Justice ended up granting custody of the children to the father after a devastating psychiatric report in which it was He claimed that Rivas was actually a danger to his children, and that they are much safer with their father.

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