The criticism in opposition to Julio Iglesias for alleged abuse has been closed in Spain | EUROtoday

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The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Spanish Audiencia Nacional has closed the preliminary investigation into the criticism filed by an NGO in opposition to Julio Iglesias, which accused the singer of alleged sexual assaults and trafficking in opposition to two former collaborators. The continuing was closed attributable to “lack of jurisdiction of the Spanish courts”, in response to the ruling issued.

The alleged abuse attributed by the ladies to the well-known singer – who has bought 300 million information – allegedly occurred in 2021 in his villas within the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The public prosecutor had began preliminary investigations to evaluate the jurisdiction of the courtroom, after the NGO Womens’Link World had introduced the criticism on January 3 on behalf of the 2 former workers, following a three-year journalistic investigation by the web newspaper elDiario.es and Univision TV.

According to the conclusions of the Prosecutor’s Office, “all of the allegedly criminal facts occurred outside Spanish territory” and the complainants not solely should not have Iberian nationality, however they don’t even keep “their center of life, interest or activity” in Spain. Therefore, it concludes that it’s not competent to analyze crimes dedicated overseas within the absence of related hyperlinks with the nation, particularly when the native authorities haven’t renounced their jurisdiction. In reality, it doesn’t seem that the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas have refused to analyze the info. Women’s Like had chosen Spain by leveraging the artist’s Spanish nationality and nationwide rules relating to safety in opposition to gender violence and trafficking.

Julio Iglesias has all the time denied the accusations. However, the dismissal doesn’t exclude additional developments: the NGO can nonetheless strive the legal route by presenting a direct criticism to the investigating judges of the Audiencia Nacional, regardless of figuring out that it doesn’t have the help of the Prosecutor’s Office.