• Statement First words of María León after being arrested: "I have been the victim of police abuse"

  • Seville Actress María León arrested for assaulting a local police officer

The Investigating Court number 18 of Seville has resolved the provisional dismissal and filing of the complaint filed by the actress

María León

against the agents of the Seville

Local Police

who acted in her identification and arrest for allegedly assaulting an agent of the device, something that the interpreter denies assuring that she was "victim of police abuse", also allegedly.

Her complaint, however, has been provisionally dismissed, as confirmed by the law firm representing the actress.

The events, according to the Seville Local Police, occurred at dawn in the vicinity of

Avenida de María Luisa

in the Seville capital, where, according to the version of the uniformed officers, several agents went to the notice of a cyclist who was with signs of drunkenness.

While they were carrying out the breathalyzer test, a group of people, including María León, began to rebuke the agents and record the scene with their mobile phones, to which the local police asked for their identification.

The actress did not carry her ID, so the agents urged her to go to the police station in a patrol car.

After that, according to the police version, several people from the group surrounded the patrol car, one of them opening one of the doors, before which the actress prepared to get out of the vehicle, something that an agent tried to prevent,

allegedly being beaten by María León

, finally arrested for such an extreme.

During her court appearance, according to sources from

the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA)

informed Europa Press , the actress accepted her constitutional right not to testify, after which the court ordered her provisional release, investigated by an alleged crime of assault on authority.

THE ACTRESS'S REACTION

After that, the actress denounced the police officers who arrested her for alleged crimes of illegal detention, injuries and against moral integrity.

The actress, thus, has denied "having assaulted anyone" and has claimed to be

the "victim of police abuse"

, and she is now her filed complaint.

For its part, the section of the Professional Union of Municipal Police of Spain (Sppme) in the Seville City Council has defended the "absolute professionalism and exemplary nature" of the agents who made the arrest, alleging against the accusations of "police abuse" of the accused that she was given "correct and polite treatment" despite her "provocations" and that the person who was treated in a health center was the agent whom the actress allegedly assaulted.

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