Cristina Fallarás has been the journalist that recently has collected the testimonies of some victims who claimed to suffer sexual violence by a “politician who lives in Madrid”, which has led to the resignation of Iñigo Errejón as spokesperson for the Sumar political group. Now, Fallarás has revealed to the Telecinco program 'La Mirada Crítica' that has received more complaints that point to other political leaders.
It was this Saturday when Meta, owned by Instagram, has suspended the journalist's account, as also made known by journalist Rosa María Artal, at a time when many women were sending her cases of situations of harassment and violence with other politicians. Hours later, the social network rectified it and reactivated it again.
Cristina Fallarás: “Right now I'm furious. And with a lot of fear”
Cristina Fallarás He spoke on TVE's 24h channel about the suspension of his Instagram account. “Right now I'm furious. And with a lot of fear. These days I have received more than a thousand messages. If I don't recover the account, those evidence of cases of violence and sexual harassment would be lost,” he said, before he recovered the account.
“The ones I have opened had cases from culture, the media, and other political parties. It seems very serious to me, first because I do not break the rules, they already closed my account in March 2024. I appealed and they reopened it. I am very worried that they will do it again. I don't have this week's messages downloaded.”
How to recover your accountstated that he would do “everything in my power. The fact that this account is closed discourages women from reporting cases of sexual assault. Twitter already banned me. On Instagram I have achieved the same thing again. I am inaccessible to discouragement. I do not think it is a coincidence that, when I have hundreds of new women's stories that point to certain sectors of public life, the messages disappear”.
“We are many. It makes me angry because I think my profile was a useful platform, even for the media. There are many women working on this. Once the reporting mechanism, the story, is launched, the women will find their way, despite the obstacles. I will do everything I can to get the account back. I will make public everything that women want to tell”.
Messages pointing to other political officials
This Friday, the journalist assured that He is receiving messages from women pointing out other positions politicians due to sexist attitudes and abuse of power, “both left and right.” Fallarás stressed that its function through its Instagram account (@cfallaras) is advise victims and make messages public.
“There are women who denounced him and had to leave politics”
“My question is: in addition to the Police, couldn't political parties also open a mailbox in which women tell them that so-and-so has harassed them? We must listen to the victims, not silence them,” he argued during said program. Later, in 'La Hora de la 1', she added: “There are some women who tell me that at the time they denounced it in their parties and the thing stayed at home.”
In this public television program has reaffirmed itself in that in this case it does not refer to Sumar, but to “other parties, left and right.” “Hay several women who reported him and not only that, but they had to leave the policy”, he concluded.
More women have joined in to tell their experience
After the Errejón case came to light, in the last hours there have been many women that have pointed to other political directions. “My abuser He also held political office. I also belonged to a party that was supposed to represent me. I had to see your face championing change months after I broke down. The beginnings of the new left and that movement of hope were my total loss of confidence. It was devastating and I had to live it in silence” is the testimony of one of the publications.
“A few months ago I was the victim of a sexual abuse by a militant and advisor More Madrid hired in a City Council with representation in this party. […] we had a sexual encounter, Although it is true that at first I agreed to said meeting […] we had drunk a lot, I don't even remember how I got to the bed, I remember that “He slapped me hard a lot, he only stopped when I started crying,” story. Later, he revealed that the next morning he woke up with bruises on his body and adding that did not report “out of fear, shame and guilt.”
The former politician admitted the veracity of the accusations
This Friday it was announced that the exporter by Sumar is being investigated at police stations for three alleged episodes of sexual violence, after having received the complaint from the actress and presenter Elisa Mouiláa, after having coincided in the presentation of Errejón's book.
These circumstances occur at the time when the politician resigned from all his positions last Thursday, alleging in a statement issued on the social network having reached “the limit of contradiction between the character and the person.” Immediately afterwards, it was also confirmed that Errejón had admitted to Más Madrid the veracity of the accusations about him in recent days.
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