A policeman is being investigated for grabbing a FEMEN activist by the chest in Madrid

A policeman will testify as being investigated on Thursday earlier than a choose in Madrid for some information that would represent crimes of sexual abuse and towards ethical integrity. According to the grievance filed by a FEMEN activist, she grabbed her chest.

It occurred at a protest by the feminist collective within the Plaza de Oriente within the capital, on November 20, 2022. She and two different girls have been finishing up a “symbolic and peaceable motion in entrance of a focus organized by the Spanish Catholic Movement.”

This is acknowledged within the grievance filed by the younger girl. The demonstration consisted of shouting “to fascism neither honor nor glory” and, as regular on this group, the three younger girls uncovered their breasts.

“In an instantaneous, a number of policemen got here to fulfill her,” some arrested two protesters “with evident professionalism” and one other policeman grabbed the third girl “from behind, squeezing her breasts with each arms,” the letter specifies.

Two FEMEN activists with law enforcement officials in MadridEuropa Press

For the affected activist’s lawyer, this “was clearly pointless for the arrest”, which is why he considers it an abuse of “her place of superiority”, along with her standing of authority.

After a couple of seconds, she says, different policemen grabbed this third activist to cowl her torso with a jacket. After being recognized, the three have been launched, informing them {that a} sanction proposal was going to be made for a potential administrative infraction.

The agent “had his identification coated”

The second was immortalized in a number of images that function a documentary foundation for the grievance. In it, it’s emphasised that the agent, as the photographs present, “had his numerical identification utterly coated.”

The head of the Investigating Court Number 11 of Madrid, Juan Javier Pérez, admitted in January the temporary introduced by the activist towards the police officer. In February, he summoned the activist and the photographer (this one as a witness) to testify on April 12.

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