The actor Pepe Viyuela has made the decision to abandon Jardiel in love the play in which he plays the writer Enrique Jardiel Poncela and which directs Ramon Paso after the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has filed a complaint this week against the director for alleged sexual crimes that he would have committed against several women between 2018 and 2023.
“I’m shocked. I’m nervous. I don’t think about anything else. I’m shocked“, Viyuela explained in statements to Europa Press shortly after learning that the Public Ministry has directed the complaint to the Dean of Courts of Madrid after having completed some pre-procedural proceedings in which it took statements from 14 alleged victims – aged between 18 and 25 years old– who ratified their complaint at the prosecutor’s office.
The Prosecutor’s Office denounces the playwright Ramn Paso for alleged sexual crimes against 14 women
The Prosecutor’s Office denounces the playwright Ramn Paso for alleged sexual crimes against 14 women
Pepe Viyuela, who until now starred at the Infanta Isabel Theater in Madrid in the play written and directed by Ramn Paso, has assured that he has not spoken with the playwright. “I don’t want to call him. I don’t want to continue with the show. I’m leaving.”he stressed, and then clarified that Paso is not his friend.
In the middle of rehearsal, the actor assured that he understands “the presumption of innocence, but there is something too strong in the subject” and added that “there are 14 women.” “I stand on the side of the alleged victims”, he declared, while indicating that he feels “incapable of continuing to do this function”, although the case is “to be proven.” “Ramn has to clarify many things,” he added.
The function of this Wednesday Jardiel in lovehas been suspendedaccording to theater sources.
Viyuela, who assures that “Never” had such a thing happened to him., feels that he cannot “distrust the testimony of 14 people.” “There has to be something. I don’t think there is a plot or that they want to kill him,” she insisted, and then concluded: “I don’t have the guts to go on stage this afternoon.”
ANA AZORN: “EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP”
Meanwhile, from the actress’ representation agency Ana Azorn -founding partner of the Paso Azorn theater company together with the playwright himself- have confirmed to Europa Press that the actress “always works with him” and that in all these years there have been “an extraordinary relationship without any problems.”
For their part, sources close to the playwright, screenwriter and stage director have informed Europa Press that “he is meeting with his legal advisors”, following the complaint from the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.
THE PROSECUTOR’S COMPLAINT
The Prosecutor’s Office includes in its complaint alleged crimes of sexual assault –in some cases in its continued modality–, as well as crimes of sexual harassment and harassmentagainst moral integrity and coercion.
The lawyer specifies that the majority of the complainants, but not all, were victims of actions that fell within the spectrum included in the Penal Code – after the reform of what is known as the ‘only yes is yes law’ – for assaults. sexual.
The sources consulted on the case advise that, at the moment, the matter is pending distribution in the Madrid Courts. Once the investigating judge is appointed, he will be the one who determines whether or not to admit the document of the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the grandson of the playwright Alfonso Paso and great-grandson of the writer Enrique Jardiel Poncela.
CASTINGS BETWEEN 2018 AND 2023
The reported events would have occurred between 2018 and 2023, always related to Paso’s theatrical activity, the sources consulted point out. According to these sources, the conduct indicated by the Public Ministry would have taken place in the framework of castings in which the playwright and the alleged victims participated.
It was the lawyer Luisa Estvez Martinez who brought the facts to the attention of the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office last year. The Public Ministry took a statement from the lawyer as a witness and then collected the testimonies of 14 women who ratified the complaint, the sources of the case add.
According to the lawyer, the Prosecutor’s Office, in addition to taking statements, has received Documentary evidence relating to the reported events, as well as expert reports from one party that corroborated the women’s version and psychological reports.
On April 10, the Public Ministry decreed the conclusion of its pre-procedural proceedings and agreed to file a complaint before the Madrid Courts, an event that took place this Tuesday.