The lawyer for the Cangas police officer accused of sexual harassment says that “there is no evidence”

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2023-05-03 01:20:20

“No test”. This was stated by the defense lawyer, Javier Díaz Dapena, who was advancing yesterday, at the doors of the Third Section of the Provincial Court in Oviedo, who is going to request the free acquittal of his sponsor, an agent of the Local Police of Cangas de Onís accused of sexually harassing a partner. The private prosecution is exercised by Laura María López, who did not want to make statements about the case.

The hearing was set for 10 o’clock yesterday, but, in the end, it could not be held because the defendant did not attend. The explanation given by the lawyer was a “justified non-appearance”.

Both agents were part of the same Local Police team when, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, the events occurred in May 2020; then the young woman was 26 years old. The public prosecutor’s office claims for the defendant a sentence of five months in prison, the prohibition of going to the victim’s home, her workplace, as well as approaching her within 200 meters. 3,000 euros are also requested for moral damages.

The events would have occurred when both were on duty in May 2020. She suffered from anxiety and was on leave

The Prosecutor’s Office maintains, in its qualification brief, that the defendant, while on duty, took advantage of the opportunity offered by sharing a work shift with her to, “guided by a libidinous spirit and without respecting the contrary will of the woman,” impose “a series of behaviors of sexual content.” According to this account of the facts of the Prosecutor’s Office, on May 29, 2020, between one and three in the morning, they were both in the patrol car between the cemetery and the local shooting range. “While the defendant was driving, he touched her left thigh for a few minutes.” He also “told her of intimate adventures he had had with women; conduct which lasted until she interposed her arm before she reached his groin.”

The now defendant then parked in the vicinity of the shooting range and both got out of the vehicle. It was then, says the Prosecutor’s Office, when this man cornered her against him, taking advantage of the fact that she was leaning on the car, “rubbing off her, while she told him how she courted women and what she did with them.” There were more chapters of this type, the Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes, which maintains that due to suffering these situations she suffered anxiety and was prescribed a medical leave.

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