Julio Iglesias once again asks the Prosecutor’s Office to file a complaint against him, suspecting it to be “false”

The singer Julio Iglesias has once again asked the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court to send him the document containing the accusations against him for the alleged sexual assaults suffered by two of his former employees in order to “determine whether a possible crime of false reporting could have been committed.”

In a letter, to which Europa Press has had access, his lawyer addresses the Public Ministry days after it decided to file the proceedings against Iglesias due to the “lack of jurisdiction” of the court to hear events that had occurred in the Caribbean.

His lawyer, specifically, asks the Prosecutor’s Office for “a copy of the complaint and the full content of the pre-procedural investigation proceedings”, ensuring that “there is no law that limits the right of the accused to know the actions carried out by virtue of a complaint directed against him.”

“We cannot forget either that access to the complaint is also necessary so that we can determine whether a possible crime of false reporting could have been committed, this in Spain, by the complainants, so that, from this perspective, the legitimate interest of Mr. Iglesias is equally justified,” the letter points out.

The singer’s representation criticizes that the Prosecutor’s Office’s archiving decree has “assigned the complainants as protected witnesses.” All of this after they, “through their representatives and related media,” had “orchestrated an aggressive media campaign against” Iglesias “that has irreversibly harmed their right to honor.” “Which is not compatible with the demand for protection that the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office has granted them, even without jurisdiction,” he adds.

And, he points out, this “condition of protected witnesses cannot lead to the denial of access by the accused to the content of the proceedings carried out and to the imposition of the definitive deprivation of acquiring knowledge about the content of the complaint and what was done, and to being referred to the information provided by the media and to the use that the complaint may continue to be made in the media related to the complaining organization, without the possibility of defending their fundamental rights.”

THE PROSECUTOR’S FILE

It was last Friday when the Prosecutor’s Office published its archiving decree, in which it highlighted the “lack of jurisdiction of the Spanish courts and therefore the lack of competence of the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court to hear the pre-procedural investigation of the reported events.”

The Prosecutor’s Office recalled that, according to the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, “it is not up to Spain to investigate acts committed beyond its borders when another State has clear and effective jurisdiction to do so, and there is no reason not to initiate the corresponding criminal actions there.”

The decree pointed out that, although the crime of trafficking in human beings – one of those reported – is pursued extraterritorially, it requires that the procedure be directed against a Spaniard and that there be elements of a material connection with Spain, such as the victims being nationals or residing in the country.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office pointed out, in this regard, that “the victims are foreigners”, that “they do not reside in Spain” and that “the facts are attributed to countries fully competent” to hear them. Furthermore, it indicated that those accused – in addition to Iglesias, a Brazilian citizen and another Colombian – do not reside in Spain either.

The resolution explained that the National Court has confirmed in other cases that Spain “is not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad when there are no relevant links with our country.” “Especially when the victims are foreigners and are not residents of Spain, the alleged perpetrators are also residents or are not located in Spain and the events are investigated or can be investigated in the State where they occurred,” he concluded.

THE COMPLAINT OF THE FORMER WORKERS

Two former workers – a domestic worker and a physiotherapist – claim to have suffered touching, insults and humiliation during their work day in an environment of control and continuous harassment, according to an investigation carried out by ‘elDiario.es’ in collaboration with Univisión Noticias.

One of these employees claims to have been pressured to have sexual encounters with the artist and speaks of penetrations, slaps, and physical and verbal humiliation. These events, according to two of the interviewees, occurred in 2021 when the youngest of them was 22 years old.

This is clear from the investigation carried out over three years, in which 15 former employees of the service have been contacted, including domestic staff and other specialized professionals who worked for the singer between 1990 and 2023 at properties in the Dominican Republic, Bahamas and Spain.

The employee who has claimed to have suffered penetrations maintains that the Spanish artist, who was 77 years old at the time, called her to his room many times at the end of the workday. “He used me almost every night,” he says in an interview with investigative media.

“I felt like an object, like a slave,” she adds. These sexual encounters almost always occurred with the presence and participation of another employee who held hierarchical superiority over this domestic service worker.

According to the investigation, in the interviews the affected people talk about “conditions of isolation of women, labor conflicts, the hierarchical structure of the staff and the environmental tension generated by Iglesias’ irascible character.”

The two women who report sexual assaults “were interviewed repeatedly over more than a year, and offer consistent and stable testimonies,” says the publication, which assures that “their statements have been contrasted with abundant documentary evidence, such as photographs, call logs, WhatsApp messages, visas, medical reports and other documents.”

The events described by two of the workers would have taken place at the residences of Julio Iglesias in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) and in Lyford Cay (Bahamas) supposedly with the knowledge of the women in charge of managing the home and hiring the staff, according to these two former workers.