Quim Arrufat loses his lawsuit against the ARA regarding the cases of sexual abuse reported within the CUP.
"The news cannot be described as false or far from reality," says the judge.
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 prominent public figure, the information was accurate, he was contacted to obtain his version of events, and around fifteen sources supported it. possible expulsion) and, furthermore, in 2019, more than a year before the publication of the article, so said publication cannot be considered the trigger for the end of her political career." Therefore, she concludes that "it is considered fully proven that the impact that the plaintiff may have suffered finds its cause or origin in the protocols and not in the newspaper article as such."
The lawsuit was triggered by the news item in the newspaper ARA entitled "Arrufat left the CUP with an internal complaint for sexual assault," which detailed two internal complaints of sexual abuse, one of them for being internally aggressive within the pro-independence party. According to the judge, "the CUP recognized the facts that motivated the newspaper's news and gave credibility to the news published in October 2020, recognizing a "process of sexist aggression" and that they "condemned the aggression."
The ruling allowed an appeal, but the deadline for filing one has passed without the plaintiff having appealed.
