Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, on trial in Zamora for calling Pablo Iglesias’ father a terrorist

Cayetana Alvarez de Toledodeputy of the Popular Group in Congress, is going to trial this Wednesday, November 2, for addressing paul churches in the year 2020 in parliament as “son of a terrorist”. Francis Xavier Iglesiasfather of the now former Vice President of the Government, decided at the time to denounce the PP’s policy, considering that his right to honor had been violated.

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Iglesias father claims compensation of 18,000 euros for moral damages, a request that is defended in the Court of Instruction number 3 of Zamora, where the trial against Álvarez de Toledo is held. The defendant already pointed out at the time that “in the face of the son’s father’s demand,” she would defend her right “to tell the truth.”

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One of the arguments put forward by the plaintiff is that the attack made by Álvarez de Toledo was made from the public speaker that offered him his position as spokesman for the Popular Party in Congress, and with the aim of attacking a political opponent without paying attention to that the person affected was an anonymous person, with no more media interest than that provided by being the father of the then leader of United We Can.

Precisely, Iglesias son wanted to defend his father at the time from the accusation made by the popular representative: “My father was never convicted of terrorism, but for distributing leaflets against Franco. Therefore, justice is going to condemn Doña Cayetana and all the heads of PP and VOX who said the same thing,” the then second vice president of the Government said on his Twitter account after the incident in Congress.

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo called my father a terrorist. My father was never convicted of terrorism but for distributing leaflets against Franco. Therefore, justice is going to sentence Mrs. Cayetana and all the heads of PP and VOX who said the same thing to pay €80,000.

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— Pablo Iglesias ???? (@PabloIglesias) November 12, 2021

Now, it will be the court that decides whether Francisco Javier Iglesias’ lawsuit is successful, in a process on which the father of the former leader of Podemos has preferred not to speak publicly until now. the father-in-law of Irene Montero He was a member of the Revolutionary Anti-Fascist and Patriotic Front (FRAP), which operated in the last years of Francoism and the Transition and was dissolved in 1978.

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It must be remembered that, in 2019, Francisco Javier Iglesias already won a trial against the now Vox MEP, Hermann Terstchwhich had linked him to the murder of a police officer in 1973. The convicted person was forced to pay 15,000 euros and make the content of the sentence public on his Twitter account.