A Madrid judge has summoned a national police officer who allegedly grabbed an activist from the Femen feminist collective by the breasts to testify as being investigated for an alleged crime of sexual abuse.
The head of the Investigating Court number 11 of Madrid will take a statement next Thursday from the member of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), the riot police, after admitting to process the complaint filed by the activist considering that the facts “present characteristics that make presume the possible existence of crime”.
In his car, this Tuesday, April 11, the magistrate attributes to the agent a possible crime of sexual abuse.
According to the aforementioned complaint, three Femen activists, including the complainant, had agreed on November 20 to hold a “symbolic and peaceful” protest in the Plaza de Oriente in Madrid, where a rally was being held by the Catholic Movement. Spanish.
The three activists, as usual in Femen actions, planned to show messages written on their naked torsos, in addition to shouting: “To fascism, no honor, no glory.”
When they took off their coats, the complaint says, “several policemen came to meet them,” and immediately one of them proceeded to arrest two of the activists “with obvious professionalism,” while another officer held the complainant “squeezing her.” her breasts with both hands, which was obviously unnecessary for the arrest.”
“He abused his position of superiority and used his status as an agent of authority,” he continues.
The sequence of events was captured by a photojournalist, who has been summoned to testify as a witness this Wednesday, the same day the complainant will appear.
In fact, the agent under investigation was not identified by the activist and it was the judge who, after admitting the complaint, ordered him to be identified using the photographs taken by the photojournalist.
The complainant’s lawyer, Endika Zulueta, has highlighted that this is the first complaint filed by a Femen activist against a police officer “in Spanish judicial history”, since “to date no sexual abuse had been suffered during arrests” after the actions of the collective.
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