The head of Court number 84 of Madrid has condemned the MEP Alise Pérez to pay 20,000 euros to former minister José Luis Ábalos for illegitimate interference in his honor and image. The facts date back to August 2020 when Alvise Pérez, then a mere stirrer in networks, published on the social network X a message calling from mafioso to Ábalos because he supposedly met in a bar with a lawyer from a criminal organization of these characteristics. A situation that was false, as Alvise himself acknowledged in the trial, because he had confused the Interlocutor de Ábalos that appeared in the image. He was not the aforementioned lawyer but an old friend of the then minister.
freedom of expression “does not protect the right to the especially insult with inveracing information”
The judge rejects in his sentence the excuses and recognition of Alvise’s error. It emphasizes that the information was not minimally contrasted or verified, and that it cannot take refuge in freedom of expression that “does not protect an intended right to insult.”
For the judge, the rights invoked by Alise Pérez to publish these attacks, “in no case” they protect “a derogatory and pejorative comment aimed at provoking the discredit or discredit” by José Luis Ábalos, “especially when it was based on information that was not truthful.”
The judge condemns Alvise to pay 10,000 euros for each of the two rights violated, that of the honor and that of the image of Ábalos itself, as well as the accrued interests and to eliminate from the social network X both the comment and the photographs mentioned. This sentence can be appealed in appeal before the Provincial Court of Madrid.
second condemns the alvisis against aboles
This is the second condemnatory ruling to Alise Pérez for publications referring to José Luis Ábalos. Last March he was sentenced to compensate with 60,000 euros to the former minister for publishing photographs while being at his home, implying that he had mental health problems.
The problems of the MEP with Justice do not stop growing. Today he accumulates three cases in the Supreme Court. One by illegal financing when receiving 100,000 euros in black from a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, the second for publishing a false PCR of former Minister Salvador Illa during the Covid Pandemia, and the third and most recent, for harassing the prosecutor of hate crimes, Susana Gisbert.
