The judge orders the arrest of Elisa Mouliaá for not having appeared for Errejón's lawsuit

MadridThe judge investigating actress Elisa Mouliaá following the lawsuit filed by Íñigo Errejón for alleged defamation has ordered her arrest and that she be brought before the court. This was agreed 24 hours after the actress failed to appear for the third summons as an investigated party. In the ruling, to which ARA has had access, Arturo Zamarriego argues that Elisa Mouliaá "has repeatedly expressed her intention not to appear" in court, which demonstrates a "clear and unequivocal intention to evade the action of justice." The arrest warrant will be in effect until June 2031. Furthermore, the magistrate is forwarding testimony to the deanery of the Madrid courts to determine if Mouliaá's "repeated non-appearance" constitutes a crime of disobedience to judicial authority. The actress was summoned this Monday at eleven in the morning at the Plaza de Castilla courts, but she did not appear, alleging that she was working abroad, and assured on social media that she was available remotely.

Last Friday, she herself announced on X – in a tweet she later deleted – that she would not appear in person because she would be working between Dubai and the Red Sea with an "international professional contract" in effect between June 8 and July 31: "I have documented that I will be in areas without coverage and with very limited communications," she had repeated in recent hours in various posts. When it was confirmed that she would not go, she herself assured on X that she had canceled her workday and was at the hotel "ready" and with "signal" to connect by video call.

Her lawyer, Yurena Carrillo, informed the judge of this. Upon leaving the court, in front of the media, Carrillo explained that she had offered the possibility for the actress to testify remotely and regretted that the magistrate "did not even" respond to the request. "He did not consider it," she said. "We don't know if it would have worked or not. She tried to connect and had no coverage, but what is not tried is not achieved," she added.

A lawsuit for slander

arguing that she did not want to "carry the burden of the complaint alone" in "Curious country that in which the media attention focuses on the accuser while the main case remains unresolved," Elisa Mouliaá has complained insistently in recent days. Why did she say that? The latest developments in the main case were marked by the comings and goings of the actress. In February, in five days, she went from withdrawing the accusation arguing that she did not want to "bear the weight of the complaint alone" to maintaining the accusation and the request for three years in prison and compensation of 30,000 euros. At the beginning of January the judge sent Íñigo Errejón to trial, but it is still pending that the Audiencia de Madrid resolves the appeal filed by his defense. It is the last step he has left to avoid sitting in the dock.

The third planting

Monday was the third time Elisa Mouliaá avoided appearing in person before the judge for the defamation lawsuit. The first summons was on March 27th. Mouliaá announced on television her "firm intention" not to appear, and that appointment ended up being suspended because Alfredo Arrién, who was her lawyer, had surgery. The second attempt was on April 24th. The actress asked to postpone it again, and the judge rejected it, but she didn't go, arguing that she was on sick leave. Two days later, a forensic doctor went to her home and concluded that she was fully capable of testifying. Finally, in a new resolution, on May 14th, the judge summoned her for June 15th and added an "express precaution" just in case: "If she does not appear, her detention may be ordered." And that is what has ended up happening.