The First Government Vice PresidentMaría Jesús Montero, has asked in Seville on Tuesday “apologies” for the words he delivered last Saturday during the inauguration of the PSOE de Jaén Congress If “you can conclude” what he put “In question the presumption of innocence”but he has reaffirmed in his idea that the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to acquit the former footballer Daniel Alves when reviewing the conviction that another court had imposed in the first instance for a crime of sexual aggression constitutes “A setback.” Montero has now apologized for his attack on the presumption of innocence After accusing the PP of “misrepresenting” his words.
Montero has ruled after the controversy raised by his statements about Dani Alves before the media in Seville before participating in the inauguration of the VI World Forum for Local Economic Development. In the PSOE de Jaén Congress, he crossed out “shame” the judgment of the TSJC and censored that the testimony of a victim is questioned «and it is said that The presumption of innocence is ahead of the testimony of Young womenbrave, who decide to denounce the powerful, the great, the celebrities ».
Montero has recognized that «I believe that of the Literality of expression that I used it can be concluded that I have put in question neither more nor less than the presumption of innocence, which is a pillar of our Rule of lawobviously I withdraw and apologize for that expression, ”he added.
The vice president wanted to “go to the bottom of the matter”, and after noting that the sentences “comply with” and “respect”, she stressed that “that does not mean that one has its own assessment about its content,” as well as noted that Daniel Alves was first tried by a court that “declared guilty”, so “we are not talking in the void”, but “of a specific issue.”
The leader of the Andalusian PSOE has opined that «The presumption of innocence cannot be incompatible with credibility and with the reliability of the testimony of the victims, “and stressed that”This is important to take it into accountbecause sexual assaults are in a difficult context to determine “, since” usually occur in places where there is intimacy among people “, so” there are usually no witnesses. “
Montero has highlighted that “The reactions of the victims” of these crimes “do not respond to any type of standard or stereotype”, but “each person has their way of reacting to this.”
«So I believe that the debate is very important, because justice in this country had taken steps, I believe that decisive, in the progress of women and, therefore, also of the defense of women, and I sincerely believe that this sentence is a setback regarding those advances, and I think that the social debate that allows us to see how and in what we are capable of not revictimizing the victims when they make their statement in the courts are generated. A double suffering, ”Montero continued.
