Quim Arrufat loses his lawsuit against the ARA regarding the sexual abuse cases reported within the CUP.

BarcelonaThe presiding judge of the Vilanova i la Geltrú court has dismissed in its entirety the lawsuit filed by former MP Quim Arrufat against the newspaper ARA and its journalist Albert Llimós. The complaint concerns a figure of public importance, the information was accurate, he was contacted to offer his version, and there were fifteen sources that supported it. The complaint was filed in 2019, more than a year before the publication of the article, so said publication cannot be considered the trigger for the end of his political career. Therefore, she concludes that "it is considered fully established that the impact the plaintiff may have suffered is caused or originated in the protocols and not in the newspaper article itself. This is not the case and cannot be dealt with internally within the pro-independence party. According to the judge, "the CUP acknowledged the facts that motivated the newspaper report and gave credibility to the news published in October 2020, recognizing a "process of sexist aggression" and that they "condemned the aggression of non-aggression" of all this. reality."

The ruling allowed an appeal, but the deadline to file it has passed without the plaintiff having appealed.