The founder of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero, will sue María Dolores de Cospedal, who was general secretary of the PP and defense minister between 2016 and 2018, and former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, after the audios published of a conversation between the two in which he claims to have “a hell of a theme against Podemos.”
As published this Thursday by the newspaper El País, in that conversation Villarejo spoke with Cospedal about the so-called PISA report (Pablo Iglesias S.A.), a document made in 2016 by the so-called “patriotic police” and leaked to the press to spread the idea that the leader of Podemos had received illegal money from the Iranian dictatorship and that he recognized that it was false.
As confirmed by Monedero to Efe, the founder of the purple formation has transferred his lawyer to prepare the complaint “as a result of the audios that demonstrate maneuvers against Podemos, against Pablo Iglesias and against me.”
The lawsuit could accuse Villarejo and Cospedal of several crimes, among them “injuries, slander, conspiracy to commit a crime and a possible crime of false accusation and complaint and simulation of crimes in order to harm, without demerit that some more”, have stressed the sources.
“The statement in those audios by Villarejo saying, ‘Fundamentally, Monedero’, and stating that they were going to ruin our lives is worrying. Even more so when all kinds of attacks began in that direction, in which State institutions participated,” has specified Wallet.
In the opinion of the founder of Podemos, it is “inadmissible that a member of the Government, and also the general secretary of the ruling party, used the services of a commissioner to harm political opponents by accusing them of false crimes.”
That may be -he adds- “an indication of the spurious use of the State to commit crimes against members of Podemos.” “The subsequent accusations, the media attacks and the persecution I suffered are proof that the will shown in the audios was later put into operation,” said Monedero, before assuring that the state apparatuses “have been used illegally to harm the leaders”.
