A judge in Seville has asked the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office to report MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez for threatening her in several of his Telegram messages in front of hundreds of thousands of followers. The magistrate, who is investigating the ultra Vito Quiles for defaming the secretary general of Facua, claims that the leader of ‘Se Acabó la Fiesta’ gave her “24 hours” to rectify one of her judicial decisions under the threat of publishing “things about the definition of the term bribery”. In her deduction of testimony, the judge understands that the MEP could have incurred in “threats and repression of the judicial function” and leaves his case in the hands of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office, the court competent to investigate him for his immunity.
The far-right MEP wrote those messages on his Telegram channel, where he now has more than 700,000 followers, last June, when a judge in Seville called on the National Police to locate Vito Quiles and take his statement following a complaint filed by Rubén Sánchez, secretary general of Facua. At first, and by mistake, the judge stated in her ruling that Quiles should be arrested, although the court later clarified that the agents only had to locate him in order to notify him of the opening of the case against him.
That morning, shortly after the news broke and the agitator Quiles left Congress in a hurry, Alvise Pérez addressed Judge María José Moreno directly in a message: “I give the judge 24 hours to rectify the order of arrest of Vito Quiles and say that it is a mistake and that she only asks to find out his whereabouts.” In a second paragraph, he warned the judge that if she did not rectify, he would publish “things about the definition of the term bribe.” An hour and a quarter later he published a second message in which he went so far as to suggest, speaking of himself in the third person, that he had even spoken to the judge by phone to convey his warnings.
These comments, which received thousands of reactions from the MEP’s followers on his Telegram channel, were brought to the judge’s attention by Rubén Sánchez and the magistrate, as elDiario.es has been able to verify, has taken action: she has sent them to the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office to consider whether Alvise Pérez should be charged with threats and “repression of the judicial function”. According to the magistrate, these two messages “may constitute” a crime and must be analysed by the Prosecutor’s Office of the court competent to investigate Pérez for his immunity as a member of the European Parliament.
Now it will be up to the criminal prosecutors of the Supreme Court to analyse Pérez’s messages and decide whether they can be considered a threat against the magistrate of the 18th Court of Instruction in Seville. If this is the case, they will have to file a complaint with the Criminal Chamber presided over by Manuel Marchena and start proceedings against the MEP, who already stated during the electoral campaign of the last European elections that one of his main objectives was to be excluded to protect what he has been defining for years as a fight against corruption that, for the moment, he has not undertaken.
To date, Pérez has not been convicted in any criminal case, but he does have a final conviction from the Supreme Court in a civil case: the judges forced him to pay 7,000 euros in compensation to the journalist Ana Pastor for publishing private photos of her and her husband, Antonio García Ferreras, having dinner and implying that they are part of a “mafia”.
Insinuations and threats
In recent years, Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez has used his Telegram channel with hundreds of thousands of followers to spread messages that, over time, have combined far-right ideology with hoaxes, rumors and insinuations about politicians, businessmen and journalists about whom he claims to have information that is as confidential as it is compromising. “We will publish a series of audios and documents that affect the cream of the crop of judges, courts of justice, magistrates, journalists and public officials of political parties that have looted the institutions,” He said in Congress shortly after the elections.
A threat that has not materialised so far and is similar to the one made on other occasions, as well as the one made in a veiled manner to the magistrate of Seville who has now put her case in the hands of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. These insinuations and warnings have been combined in the last year with ambiguously violent language and with her role as the visible face of the first demonstrations in front of Ferraz street last November until she left one of them claiming that she was going home “to have dinner”.
Since his arrival at the European Parliament, Pérez has dedicated part of his activity on Telegram to raffling off part of his salary among his followers and also to denouncing the spending that he considers superfluous in that institution, one of his latest videos dedicated to some pins that the chamber gives to the deputies.
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