Resignation of the judicial representation of María León, one of the law firms in charge of her defense

The Sires Abogados firm leaves the defense of the actress for "professional" reasons so that Carla Vall can practice it alone

SEVILLA, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Sires Abogados firm has renounced the representation of the actress María León in the case brought against her by the Investigating Court number 18 of Seville, for allegedly assaulting an agent of the Seville Local Police, an extreme that she denies, assuring that she had been "victim of police abuse".

Sources in the case have informed Europa Press that said office has used "strictly professional reasons", specifically the idea that the most favorable thing for the actress is that her defense be exercised exclusively by an office, in this case that of the lawyer , criminal lawyer and criminologist expert in human rights and prevention of sexist violence Carla Vall, who has also been representing María León together with the Sires Abogados firm.

Recently, the defense of the actress announced the decision to appeal before the Provincial Court the order with which the Court of Instruction number 18 of Seville dismisses the appeal for reform promoted against the previous decision of provisional dismissal and archive, of the complaint of María León against the agents of the Local Police who acted in his identification and arrest.

"The mere reading of the appealed act is enough to dismiss the unjustified accusations of lack of legal reasoning. The order of 11-21-2022 (dismissal of the complaint) contains them in ample detail, considering and evaluating the certificate, the medical reports and the three videos that the appellant has decided to deliver clearly partial by not containing the events that occurred neither from beginning to end nor in the essential part. The appealed order therefore contains the necessary legal argumentation and the discrepancy of the appellant with said argumentation can never justify to ignore it", asserted the court when dismissing the appeal for reform.

Moreover, according to the court, "the appeal is limited to making generic allegations without descending to the specific case and without argumentatively refuting a single legal consideration of the appealed order."

Quite the contrary, from the (police) report it turns out that the police officers began their action when they saw a cyclist driving on public roads carrying a glass cup, managing to intercept him and requesting a breathalyzer car after giving a positive result in alcohol in a breathalyzer test. screening. According to the report, from the outset the appellant, the rest of those investigated and other unidentified people, up to a group of 10 or 12, yell at the agents and rebuke them," the car picks up.

According to said document, the police report states that "when the cyclist is taken to the police van to carry out an alcohol contrast test, the appellant decides to go to the rear door of the van and records the interior with her phone, being called to the attention of the Police Local".

"The investigated walks away to be replaced by a man approaching the van, a man taken away by a local police officer. At this moment, according to the report, the investigated goes to the policeman saying 'stupid, what are you, the sheriff?', so Faced with such a lack of respect, the agent asks for her ID to identify her for a sanction for an administrative infraction," the order states in relation to the content of the report, reflecting that according to it, María León would have again called the agent a "fool" and would have He alleged that he did not carry his ID with him, "which is why it is retained in order to transfer it to Headquarters in order to carry out identification."

"Therefore, the retention and conduction to Headquarters is covered by article 16.2 L.O. 4/2015 because the lack of respect for a police officer constitutes an infringement of article 37.4 of said Organic Law," says the court, specifying that " the subsequent arrest" of the actress derives from "the alleged assault of the appellant" against a Local Police agent, "for which the appellant is being investigated for a possible crime of assault plus a minor offense of injury to said agent".

"It is noteworthy that neither in the appeal nor in the complaint does the appellant offer any explanation for the injuries objectively diagnosed to the agent, bruise on the right cheekbone and bruise on the left knee," warns the court, which in this way completely dismisses the actress's appeal for reform, an extreme subject to appeal to the Seville Court.