The National Police He has arrested on Wednesday who was Defender of the Andalusian People, José Chamizofor an alleged crime of sexual assault on minor immigrants. Chamizo claims to be a victim of a “false complaint” filed by a member of the NGO Seville hosts. This morning he has appeared before the instruction judge of Seville, who has left him in Freedom without charges.
Chamizo was defender of the Andalusian people for 17 years, between 1996 and 2013. In the early hours of Wednesday he has been summoned to testify at the police station, where the police have informed him that he was detained. The agents have been gathering the testimonies of several young Moroccan immigrants attended at the NGO Sevilla Vote, presiding over by Chamizo. The former defender of the Andalusian people has accepted his right not to declare and has been taken before the Judge of Instruction No. 5 of Seville. There, on the recommendation of his lawyers, he has returned to his right not to declare in order to know in detail the alleged crimes attributed to him to, later, request a voluntary statement before the judge.
The appearance has lasted just 10 minutes and the instructor has agreed to release without adopting any precautionary measure against him, he reports Diario de Sevillawhich has advanced the arrest.
Upon departure from the courts, he has denied the accusations before the media and has denounced the “slander and bulles” directed against him by members of the NGO that would have invented “stories of erotic content.” He says he does not know several of the minors who appear in the complaint that, as he has defended, only collects “nonsense.”
Chamizo (Los Barrios, 1949) He exercised as a priest From 1978 to 1982 in the Church of Our Lady of La Palma de la Palma Algeciras (Cádiz), parish where the jihadist attack of 2023 occurred in which the sacristan Diego Valencia died. He was later pastor in San Roque (Cádiz).
In 2013 he was replaced as defender of the Andalusian people – regional cargo chosen by Parliament – by Jesús Maeztu, also a former priest. After leaving office, he founded the Volunteer NGOs from another worldaimed at minors formerly guarded by the Board already homeless in prison. Linked to the left, in 2015 he came to apply as a candidate for senator by autonomic designation of Canalthough during the campaign of those autonomic he advised the candidate of IUAntonio Maíllo. Since 2018 also presides over the Ong Sevilla hostsfocused on assistance to immigrants.
