The European Parliament gives the green light to investigate Alvise Pérez

BrusselsGreen light to investigate Alvise Pérez (S'ha Acabat la Festa). The European Parliament voted this Tuesday in plenary session to withdraw the immunity of the far-right Spanish MEP and, therefore, the Supreme Court will be able to investigate him for the case of harassment of the delegate prosecutor for hate crimes in Valencia, Susana Gisbert.

The report by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Eurochamber, which the European Parliament as a whole supported this Tuesday, argues that the far-right MEP was not yet a representative of the Community chamber when he committed the alleged crime for which he is to be investigated. Furthermore, the Eurochamber notes that it has nothing to do with an "opinion expressed or a vote cast" by Alvise Pérez as a politician or potential MEP.

The text voted on by the European Parliament recalls that, at the beginning of 2024, Alvise Pérez indicated the names of the "those responsible for ideological persecution" and particularly attacked the hate crimes prosecutor of the capital of the Valencian Country. Shortly after, Gisbert received more than 1,500 comments of an "insulting nature" and, therefore, considers that the attitude of the far-right politician "may constitute crimes of harassment or incitement to commit aggression against an authority or a public official", as well as "coercion or dissemination of hatred through social networks".

Beyond this case, the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Eurochamber received another request from the Supreme Court for Alvise Pérez on November 12 last year for the accusation of irregular financing for allegedly having received 100,000 euros in cash from a businessman within the framework of the electoral campaign for the last European elections.

Furthermore, according to sources from the same body of the European Parliament, it is likely that the European Parliament will have to evaluate more requests for the lifting of immunity of the far-right MEP, especially considering that he is involved in two more cases. The Supreme Court is also investigating him for disseminating a false PCR test of the President of the Generalitat and former Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, and for an alleged crime of disclosure of secrets and harassment to MEPs Diego Solier and Nora Junco, the numbers two and three on his electoral list and who left S'ha Acabat la Festa shortly after the European elections.