Badalona judge María Antonia Raedo Santos has completed the investigation of a second complaint against the former director of Catalunya Ràdio Saül Gordillo for the alleged sexual assault to an editor of the digital newspaper ‘The Principal’, where both worked, inside the defendant’s vehicle and in a field near Sant Adrià del Besòs. The magistrate has given a period of 10 days for the prosecution and the private prosecution to present their qualification letter.
The same night that these events occurred, December 1, 2022, the journalist allegedly touched another editor under the pants in a nightclub in Barcelona where they were celebrating Christmas, a case that has been investigated in a Barcelona court. and that he is also pending trial.
In a brief order, to which EL PERIÓDICO has had access, the Badalona judge maintains that the investigation shows that the facts “are” constitutive of a crime of sexual assault, “having taken sufficient steps to formulate the accusation.” The resolution succinctly describes what happened, according to the robe, that night, which began with a Christmas dinner in a restaurant in Barcelona.
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After dinner, in which the victim was drinking alcoholic beverages, some of the attendees went to the Apolo nightclub. Hours later, at around 4:32 a.m., Gordillo offered to take the editor, who “was affected by the consumption of alcoholic beverages,” to her home in Badalona, since she had time to get to her residence in Badalona. Maresme. When both were inside Gordillo’s private vehicle and in an area close to the victim’s home, the judge continues, the former director of Catalunya Ràdio and then director of the digital ‘El Principal’ “performed oral sex on him.” Faced with this situation, the complainant ordered him to stop and his boss did so.
The order of the Badalona judge does not at any time refer to the fact that the victim, when she arrived home, was physically destroyed and depressed. For that reason, a few hours later she went to a health center, where blood tests were performed. In that test, according to sources familiar with the investigations, traces of a psychotropic medication called benzodiazepine were found. This substance acts on the nervous system and has sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic and amnesic effects. This drug is marketed under the name Diazepam or Lorazepam. In his statement before the judge, Gordillo explained that the sexual relationship was consensual.