On Saturday, September 10, London experienced the shock of the queen’s death Isabel II, announced Thursday night from Balmoral. That day, Prince Charles would swear at 10:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. Spanish peninsular time) as Charles III at Buckingham Palace. But since last night, with all the hustle and bustle of the queen’s death, Richard Eden, the journalist specialized in royal stories, had obtained an exclusive for the British tabloid ‘Daily Mail’. At 8:17 London time (7:17 in Spain), his email account on Twitter @ mailplus.co.uk released the following news: “Will you attend selina in aid of King John?”.
In the news, Eden said: “I can reveal that King Juan Carlos of Spain has asked the star [Selina Scott] help to save his honor and fortune. The king wants the presenter, 71 years old, to present a statement about her character in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, in which she has sued him for damages by her ex-lover, the famous German Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein Sayn58 years & rdquor ;.
And added the key in legal terms.
“Juan Carlos wants Selina, who has been a presenter on ‘News at Ten’ [Noticias a las Diez] In the channel ITV before moving on to the morning BBCdo for him the same as Kate Moss did for [el actor norteamericano Johnny Depp [‘Piratas del Caribe’] when he defended the Hollywood star during his tough battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard”.
“A Passionate Man”
According to Eden, Selina sees Juan Carlos I as “a passionate, handsome and very funny man, with a refreshing vision of the world. he introduced me to Fidel Castro and he took me for a ride on his high-powered motorcycle which was exciting.”
The journalist affirms that it remains to be seen if the petition will be heeded. “Selina, who had a home on the island of Mallorca for 30 years, has yet to decide if she wants to be involved in the crime. court battle”
What is, therefore, the judicial news?
Juan Carlos I and his defense, the lawyers from the Carter Ruck law firm -after the resignation of the highly reputed and expensive firm Clifford Chance- coordinated by Guy Martinclosely linked to court cases in the Persian Gulf countries, assume that the judge’s investigation Matthew Nicklin will go ahead and that the trial could take place.
In the current phase, Corinna’s evidence has not yet begun to be examined because it remains to be determined whether, in addition to considering the facts of the lawsuit for harassment, unlawful tracking and defamation Between 2014 and 2020, the conduct of Juan Carlos I prior to his abdication may also be prosecuted. That is to say: the period between 2012 and June 2014.
Before and after abdicating
On November 8 and 9, the Court of Appeals, civil division, will hold a hearing to hear the arguments and decide whether those pre-abdication facts they may or may not be investigated and tried in London.
Namely: if those facts are considered “acts of state & rdquor; of Spain, since they describe operations of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) in Monaco, in April and May 2002, in Corinna’s apartment and office, through a subcontracted company called Algiz Security Monacolocated in Les Ligures, Monaco.
Once Judge Nicklin knows the outcome of what might be called the equivalent of the previous issues In the Spanish judicial system, the investigation phase will begin, which may or may not end in court. This is where Corinna’s lawyers are going to present their evidence, documentaries and testimonials. And the defense of Juan Carlos I, in turn, his.
exaggerated comparison
The request of Juan Carlos I to selina scottthen, has transcended through Richard Eden, the most famous journalist in this type of exclusives. But, according to sources consulted in London, she is one of the witnesses prepared by the lawyer Guy Martin to attack Corinna’s defense arguments.
The idea that Selina could be the Kate Mossthe British supermodel, former partner of Depp, who gave decisive testimony in his favor in the second trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard held in Virginia, United States, last May, seems exaggerated. Heard won her first trial in London, but lost her second, a Depp defamation lawsuit against her over an article he published in 2018 in The Washington Post. The first was a bench trial, and Depp was sentenced to pay 2 million pounds to Heard. The second had 17 jurors, and all voted against Heard, who was sentenced to pay a total of $15 million.
But Moss’s testimony was very personal, given that Heard alleged that Depp had pushed his then-girlfriend down the stairs of their Los Angeles home in 2015. During her testimony before the Virginia jury, the supermodel said it was a lie. .
Full blown banishment
But, in any case, the defense of Juan Carlos I is preparing the case from the moment the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial continues, at the expense of determining next November if the “pre-abdication” behaviors & rdquor;as has been pointed out, between 2012 and June 2014, they can also be prosecuted in the British jurisdiction.
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If these behaviors -alleged threats from the general Felix Sanz Roldan, director of the CNI between 2012 and 2014; contracting from Spain of the Monegasque security company Algiz Monaco; surveillance in London, and dissemination of defamatory information against Corinna – are excluded on the grounds that they were “acts of the Spanish State & rdquor; -position held by the lawyers of Juan Carlos I-, would, however, be acts of antecedent harassment for the events narrated as of June 19, 2014, which are majority in the lawsuit.
What began, perhaps, as a self-banishment in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) is already a full-fledged exile. Because, archived the “investigations & rdquor; in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Spanish Supreme Court, there is no more reason than one to maintain that status of the emeritus: the shocking new revelations that will come out of British civil procedure. And the first to know is Juan Carlos I.