Five women linked to the squatter and anti-capitalist movement have filed a complaint on Tuesday in the Barcelona courts against a national police officer who they say used them while he was allegedly infiltrated in social and union movements in the Catalan capital, between 2020 and 2022.

At a press conference, the lawyers

Anaïs Franquesa

,

Mireia Salazar

,

Laia Serra

and

Sònia Olivella

from the Iridia center for human rights and the CGT have announced the presentation of the lawsuit, which stems from information in the newspaper "La Directa" stating that a national police officer was infiltrated for two years in social and union groups, mainly in the Sant Andreu neighborhood.

The complaint accuses the policeman, as well as his hierarchical superior, of having taken advantage of five activists with whom he had "affective sexual relations" as part of his infiltration process.

For this reason, they have denounced the agents for the crimes of continued sexual abuse, torture or against moral integrity, discovery of secrets and impediment to the exercise of civil rights.

In total, they would add up to twenty alleged crimes, since each of those affected has sued for the four previously mentioned, and from Irídia they do not rule out "that in the immediate future the number of women affected may be increased," the lawyer specified. Laia Serra.

The lawyers have insisted that the alleged infiltration by the police supposes "institutionalized sexual violence", given that he would have used relations with the activists "to access their intimate, personal and political information" with the aim of entering political spaces in society civil.

Regarding the crimes of sexual assault, they argue that "there can be no consent if it is not free and informed" and that in this case, the women would not have consented if they had known that it was a police officer.

In addition, they have recalled that the infiltration of agents "only has a legal justification within the framework of the fight against organized crime or terrorism."

They also consider that the agent would have committed a crime of torture because there has been a "direct attack against the moral integrity of the people affected" with the purpose of obtaining information and "punishing these women for having a political involvement", adds the a lawyer.

In addition, according to Serra, with the alleged infiltration the policeman would have been able to share all this information with his bosses, which is why they accuse him of revealing secrets.

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