Jedet wins the sexual assault trial towards producer Pérez Santana: “I want to encourage women in the audiovisual industry to raise their voices” | Culture | EUROtoday

The actress and singer Jedet has introduced on her Instagram account that she has gained the trial towards Javier Pérez Santana, the audiovisual producer whom she denounced for sexual assault and humiliation in 2023. According to the artist, courtroom quantity 7 of Zaragoza has issued a conviction, which will be appealed, which ratifies the occasions that she narrated and suffered on the social gathering after the Feroz awards ceremony in Zaragoza. In his assertion he doesn’t element the phrases of the sentence and, for the second, no info has emerged from the courts.

“I am very happy,” Jedet tells this newspaper. “After three years, a process that has marked my life comes to an end. It has not been easy, it has had a real impact on my mental health, my work and my personal life. It has been an open wound that has accompanied me everywhere,” he writes in his profile.

In the early hours of January 29, after the awards ceremony, about 200 folks, all invited to the gala, went to Espacio Ebro in Zaragoza, the place reserved by the Feroz group to have fun the social gathering after the occasion, attended by Jedet and Pérez Santana, amongst others. The celebration lasted till six within the morning. Several witnesses consulted by EL PAÍS at the moment reported that they noticed how the producer, in an altered state, “kissed several men on the mouth and neck and touched the ass” with out their permission. The filmmaker maintained this angle till the actress determined to denounce his habits, in response to those self same sources. Now, Jedet thanks all those that noticed it and later declared: “It was not easy to get involved in something that did not directly affect them.”

When the interpreter stopped her toes, the occasion’s safety workforce acted, in response to an announcement printed by the AICE. The National Police attended the occasion. And on the morning of January 29, Pérez Santana was arrested. After testifying earlier than a choose, he was launched with costs. The Prosecutor’s Office initially requested one 12 months in jail for these occasions. It was then that the judicial course of started that culminated this Wednesday along with his conviction. “During all this time I have respected the times of justice and have sustained a long, hard and very exhausting process,” writes Jedet, who doesn’t specify the main points of the decision.

In the identical message, the artist, who throughout this time has at all times inspired different girls to talk out and report, emphasizes that she empathizes, in her phrases, with “why many women do not decide to report: the processes are long, complex and because one has to relive what happened over and over again. Because reporting also has a price.” Only 8% of victims who are suffering sexual violence dare to report it, in response to knowledge from the Ministry of Equality. “Even so, I am clear that doing so was necessary. We cannot allow those who commit crimes against us to go unpunished.”

Finally, the artist asks girls within the cultural and audiovisual trade to “raise their voices in the face of any situation of abuse or overreach.” “I know that I am not the only one and that there are colleagues who have experienced similar situations,” she continues. “It is important that we understand that we are not alone and that our experiences matter.” 60.3% of girls on this sector declare to have suffered some kind of sexual violence in areas associated to the movie and audiovisual trade, in response to the primary main report from the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) printed in 2025.