The former deputy operational director (DAO) of the Police, José Ángel González – struck down in his position for an alleged sexual assault of a subordinate that is already being investigated by a gender violence court in Madrid – attributes the complaint, according to sources consulted by LA RAZÓN, to his refusal to accede to several requests for change of destination – all of them within the capital of Spain – of the alleged victim.
According to these same sources, the former police commander is already preparing his defense to face the investigation already underway by the Court of Violence against Women number 8 of Madrid. In this sense, according to those same sources, González is already collecting WhatsApp messages that he would have exchanged with the victim with the aim of trying to confront this alleged sexual assault that the accused denies and that he considers retaliation for refusing to approve those alleged repeated requests for a job change.
While waiting for the victim’s lawyer, Jorge Piedrafita, to provide the court with the recordings and messaging conversations that he considers clearly prove both the sexual assault and the presumed harassment to which she would have been subjected to try to stop her complaint, the former DAO is already articulating with his legal team his line of defense in a process that will undoubtedly have great media impact.
Complaint filed in 2019
The agent who denounces Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s right-hand man in the Police until just a few days ago, took the secretary of the Federal Police Union (UFP) union to court in 2018, with whom she had a relationship, for cyber and workplace harassment, threats and coercion for allegedly impersonating him on sexual contact pages, after which she was harassed by various users of those chats. On that occasion, the investigation was finally archived in March 2019 when the instructor considered that the criminal evidence was not “sufficient to pursue the case.” And although the investigation confirmed that access to those chats had been made from the computer of the accused (who denied that he had been the one who did it), it clarified that “several people had access to the office and the passwords of the investigated person.” From secretary to the union’s IT manager to the complainant herself.
“We are not on equal terms”
In the allegations he presented in April 2017 to oppose the closure of the investigation – to which this newspaper has had access – his defense incorporated a conversation between the victim and the investigated person on October 13, 2017 in which the latter reproached him for having acted with “disloyalty” on a “personal and professional level” in relation to him for having reported the cyberbullying he was suffering. “We are not on equal terms,” the agent snapped at the investigator, alluding to her position of hierarchical superiority in the union, where she also served. “If this is going to generate a problem, I will call there and say that they remove the complaint because it is really me who is affected, because it really started to affect me when they told me that it is from the organization” (in reference to the fact that the Technological Investigation Unit of the Judicial Police had verified that access to those chats of sexual contacts in which the victim was impersonated had occurred from a computer belonging to the union itself).
Likewise, on that occasion she also provided a recording of a meeting on October 24 of that year in which the investigated person referred to her as a “traitor.”