The acting Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has deleted the tweet she published a year and a half ago in which she indirectly called Rafael Marcos, ex-husband of María Sevilla, former president of Infancia Libre, an abuser, in compliance with a ruling from the Supreme Court (TS) who imposed it on him.
In a message on which publishes its heading and ruling below, which was also required by that judicial resolution, issued on June 8, 2023.
Likewise, in the partial assessment of Rafael Marcos' lawsuit against Irene Montero, the Civil Chamber of the TS required the minister to publish the heading and the operative part of the sentence in a national newspaper, at her expense. Montero has fulfilled it in the digital newspaper Público, which shows it from 11:11 p.m. this Friday the 10th.
The minister already paid 18,000 euros in compensation to María Sevilla's ex-husband and also had to pay 5,400 euros for the costs and interest of the procedure, according to the order executing the sentence, issued on October 4, four months after the resolution. judicial.
In it, the Supreme Court condemned Montero for violating the right to honor for some words spoken at the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Women's Institute, and the publicity he gave them by showing the video in the now-deleted tweet.
The minister then said that "protective mothers suffer unfairly and, in many cases, assuming a violation of many of their rights, criminalization and suspicion on the part of society, when what they are doing is nothing other than defending themselves." themselves and defend their sons and daughters against the sexist violence of abusers.
Marcos denounced that Montero made these statements just after learning that the Government partially pardoned his ex-wife, sentenced in 2020 to two years and four months in prison and the loss of parental authority over her son for the crime of child abduction of that child. , whom he did not allow to approach his father.
The Supreme Court pointed out that the minister's words "are not generic but rather that from the context and their literality it can be deduced that an allusion is made to the plaintiff and that acts constituting sexist violence are attributed to him."
In September, Montero paid compensation of 18,000 euros and the State Attorney's Office, which represented her in the process, asked the TS to suspend the execution of the rest of the sentence - which included the dissemination of the ruling - until the Constitutional Court resolved the case. appeal for protection.
At the beginning of this month, the Constitutional Court rejected the appeal presented by the Minister of Equality, in a ruling in which it indicated that it does not have "the special constitutional significance" that the law requires for amparo appeals to be admitted for processing.
