Actress María León faces a new judicial setback after her lawyer appealed the request for a “criminal mediation” for his client to avoid going to trial for his incident with the Local Police of Seville on October 1, 2022for which he is charged with the crimes of attack against authority and injuries when considering that there was an alleged attack on one of the agents who participated in his arrest.
The judge in charge of the case considers that it is “legally unviable” in Spain and reject that appealwith which she will have to attend the court date as a defendant for allegedly attacking one of the police officers and allegedly insulting another of them whom she had called “stupid” before the arrest.
María León, on trial for her altercation with the Seville Local Police
Almost a year ago, on June 20, 2023, the judge investigating the case of the police altercation in which María León is involved, put an end to the investigation phase that began in October 2022 after the alleged assault of the actress to an agent of the Local Police of Seville, whom according to the accusation he would have kicked and punched him and the insults that he would have allegedly directed at another colleague in the body, whom he would have called “stupid” and would have asked him ironically if he was “the sheriff.” The ‘Diario de Sevilla’ confirms that the magistrate has rejected that appeal by which they would have tried to avoid the oral trial for the crimes attributed to her.
“The only thing the defense could do is reach an agreement in accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office and the accusations individuals to try to reduce the possible penalty that would be requested at the time the oral trial is opened,” analyzed the head of the courts of the aforementioned newspaper, Jorge Muñoz, who has been updating the information related to the case. , explaining the alternative that Carla Vall i Duran, legal representative of the accused, could consider regarding the next steps of justice with her client.
The media also published, months after the confrontation in the early hours of October 1, 2022, a video with images in which María’s friends could be seen and heard trying to prevent the arrest and you can also see the moment in which which one of The agents warn her that “she is going to end up arrested,” to which she responds that she has not done anything, that they have “left her locked up.”, he asks them again why they are going to arrest him and another police officer answers “just because.” The Seville Court therefore rejects the appeal and truncates the defense plans to prevent León from sitting in the dock as a defendant for the alleged assault after she “escaped” from the Police.
Despite the version of the actress and her lawyer, the judicial body already considered in February 2023 that There was “not the slightest indication that the agents intentionally attacked and injured”, as the Sevillian newspaper also published. He will have to explain how the altercation arose since he left the party at the end of filming with a group of friends, if he recorded the police when they stopped one of those people who was supposedly riding a bicycle with a glass in hand and what happened later after the alleged escape and subsequent investigated events.
One of lime and another of sand for María León
There is the paradox that María León is going through this bitter moment due to what happened in October 2022 but also a sweet month due to the results of the series ‘El Caso Asunta’, in which she plays one of the agents of the Judicial Police who investigated the girl’s death in a role that at first could have gone to Candela Peña, although the Catalan ended up getting Rosario Porto and has established herself in that leading role so applauded among critics and viewers of the fiction of ‘ Netflix’.
The Sevillian gets into the skin of a character who, although secondary, has a lot of weight in the plot, especially in those first moments in which he accompanies the protagonist when she is arrested for the murder of her daughter and also becomes her accomplice, thus adopting a duality between the need to know what happened and the empathy for parents who had just lost their daughter. In one of the meetings with the cast, Paco León’s sister was grateful for having experienced this “beautiful, raw and realistic trip” with his co-stars.
