Mouliaá's lawyer, who became known for defending a prostitute raped by a police officer
He has been a regular in media cases for sixteen years, something he dreamed of as a child.
BarcelonaActress Elisa Mouliaá is at the center of one of the most high-profile sexual assault cases against Íñigo Errejón, former spokesperson for the Sumar party, and her lawyer has taken center stage. Alfredo Arrien, a 41-year-old from Madrid who works at the law firm Paredes & Asociados, has handled sixteen of Spain's most high-profile cases and is well-versed in situations like the one this week, when a citizen challenged a statement his client made to the media. In an interview with ARA, he reveals how he became known: it was through the rape case of Nancy Peter, an undocumented Nigerian prostitute, who was raped in 2011 by a Spanish National Police officer, who was ultimately sentenced to ten and a half years in prison. "Nobody believed her," he says. "Then vulnerable people started coming to me, people no one believed, and I continue to take on seemingly impossible cases because I enjoy it," he concludes. He's had "so many high-profile cases" that he's "constantly" on television. The Nancy Peter case came to him from a "friend of one of his mother's clients," who had been "rejected by four lawyers who hadn't believed her." That was one of the cases where he crossed paths with Judge Carretero, whom he's now working with again: "He believed me in the first case of the undocumented Nigerian woman; the evidence was clear," he says, calling him a "good judge" after working with him several times. The lawyer Miriam Vergara won that case, and he climbed the ladder, taking on cases like the La Atalaya case, to defend the family of Nelson David, murdered by Pepe Lomas—who killed him after entering his property with a gun, a case Vox then campaigned on. The criminal lawyer managed to avoid him, securing compensation and a conviction.
He also represented Nilson Domínguez in his complaint against actor Rodolfo Sancho, father of murderer Daniel Sancho, for allegedly extorting him into lying at trial; Lesly Ochoa in her case against producer and alleged exploiter Nacho Cano; and Miss Asturias, known for the Ábalos case, in her complaint against Koldo García. And he didn't stop there, taking on Aris Gómez Olaya's accusation against porn producer Torbe for the exploitation of women, and representing former gymnast Gervasio Deferr against the PRISA group for defamation for disseminating an anonymous witness statement. Then came Mouliáa: "Nobody believed Elisa. She came to the office, and with just two questions, I knew she was telling the truth," he maintains, despite having "everyone against her." He comments that he will continue with the proceedings and that "retreating is common among victims of sexual violence," as the actress didAlthough he later changed his mind.
His parents and uncles are lawyers, and his grandfather was a judge, which explains why "when I was little, around eight or nine years old, I used to play at trials with dolls" with his brother, who is now also a lawyer. A lover of painting, theater, and art, he is an idealist about the Spanish judicial system, which he says is "excellent" and "very protective of rights." His role models are the lawyers Marcos García Montes, who defended the murderer Daniel Sancho and the singer Isabel Pantoja, and José Antonio Choclán, who represented the commission agent Víctor de Aldama and Julio Iglesias.
