The prosecutor of sexual crimes Raul Iglesias assured that the court prosecutor Juan Gómez “yields to the pressure of the Intergremial Feminista”, and denounced an “abnormal interference in the technical independence” of the prosecutors. Iglesias thus referred to the report that Gómez asked him for having filed 300 complaints of sexual abuse that his Prosecutor’s Office had, and to the fact that it is the Public Policy Office of the National Prosecutor’s Office that investigates the reasons why he decided to file all those cases. “We cannot withstand pressure from anywhere, and the Court Prosecutor should protect us in some way,” Iglesias said this Wednesday in an interview on the channel 10 program Arriba Gente. Asked whether or not he feels the support of the Court Prosecutor Gómez, Iglesias He replied: “Not at all, on the contrary, what support? Along these lines, the prosecutor assured that he will not meet with Gómez, and that he will respond in writing. “He sent me something in writing that I haven’t seen yet, and well, I’ll reply to him in writing. Why am I going to meet if he yields to the pressure of the Intergremial (Feminist), and he worries about the victim and I end up as the bad guy, why am I going to speak, I don’t have to speak at all. What support did I have from the Attorney General’s Office, from the Court Prosecutor? None. On the contrary, questions.
I am subject to an administrative hierarchy, I am not unaware of that, but I am going to go to what, if he has already publicly expressed what he thinks. What am I going to go to?” Iglesias commented.
The decision to file 300 complaints of sexual abuse was questioned by the Feminist Intergremial. One of his referents, Andrea Tuana, questioned the capacity of Iglesias as a prosecutor to investigate these cases.
In this regard, he insisted that there is a “persecution” against him after having been appointed prosecutor for sexual crimes.
“I didn’t ask to go to Sex Crimes. The Court Prosecutor told me, Raúl, because of your good numbers, your good work, etc., I want you to go to this place that is complicated, but I trust you, I know it is a challenge and blah blah blah, and I tell him, easy, I go where they send me, because I know my place very well,” added Iglesias.
“Why do they take me to a place and immediately question me? I am totally sure that I am doing everything in accordance with the law”, he concluded about the case.
Besides, the lawyer of the victim of gang rape in the Cordón neighborhood filed a brief with the Court Prosecutor for understanding that prosecutor Iglesias made decisions that violate and do not protect the victim. Juan Raúl Williman thus refers to Iglesias’ decision to ask the judge to release the three accused in this case from jail and grant them house arrest.
