The trial for Mariló Montero’s toplessness begins: Gustavo González and Diego Arrabal face six years in prison

Carlos Herrera’s ex lived one of the worst moments of her life when she found out that the paparazzi Diego Arrabal y Gustavo Gonzalez she had been photographed topless with a friend in Bora Bora (during her Easter vacation in 2015) and that these were circulating in magazine newsrooms. More than six years later, the photographers were sentenced to compensate the journalist with 265,000 euros and her friend with 75,000 euros, but Marilo Montero was not satisfied and took the case to criminal proceedings. This Thursday the trial has started and the photographers have sat on the defendant’s bench: they face six years in prison.

The appointment took place at the Provincial Court of Barcelona. The Prosecutor’s Office has been left out of the case, since they do not consider that there is a crime since the photographs have not been published, but Montero’s defense accuses the paparazzi for revealing secrets and, in addition to jail, requests compensation of 265,000 euros for the damages morals caused. The trial started this Thursday with the previous issues while the rest, such as the witness statements, will take place at the end of January, specifically from the 23rd, according to The world.

At the beginning of 2022, the Court of First Instance number 35 of Madrid sentenced the agency of the aforementioned photographers, Código Press, to pay 340,000 euros for capturing these images, thus becoming the highest compensation in Spain for capturing photos without permission. . However, in August the conviction for the existence of the criminal procedure opened in Barcelona against the paparazzi was revoked, since the judge considered that until this was resolved, civil actions could not be initiated, that is, set compensation.

Mariló Montero: “It was humiliating”

It was then that the journalist spoke loud and clear about what this judicial ordeal that has not yet come to an end had meant for her: “Everything I lived through was humiliating, my mouth still dries up today and makes me want to cry because it is very humiliating and this is intolerable,” he said. “It has been, in addition to two years of constant persecution by the paparazzi, it has been more than seven years of judicial proceedings in which it has been necessary to remember a multitude of painful moments, to demonstrate them step by step.”