Cándido Conde-Pumpido Varela, son of the president of the Constitutional Court and well-known lawyer, was released after being arrested last Friday after being accused of an alleged group sexual assault. This was decreed last Sunday by the chief judge of the investigating court number 44 of Madrid, who released the three detainees without any precautionary measure, according to judicial sources.
The complainant, a woman of Brazilian origin, explained that the lawyer contacted her to come to his house, where she was forced to have relations without her consent with the three men. After much thought, she reported them that same day to the Madrid Police Headquarters, where she recounted what, according to her, happened that night.
El Debate has had access to the full complaint of the 37-year-old woman who accuses the criminal lawyer and the other two individuals of sexually assaulting her. A story in which he explains that everything begins 15 days before, in a chance meeting at the Opium nightclub in Madrid.
"I met Cándido about 15 days ago when I was leaving the Opium nightclub in Madrid. He asked for my phone number and started talking to me. He told me: 'I like you a lot.' Then we saw each other several times at his house or mine. "explains the complainant, who confirms that on November 1, the lawyer already began writing to her to come to her house.
It was not until the afternoon of Thursday, November 2 that he decided to go to the criminal's house. Upon arrival, he met one of the accused (Friend 1) and, later, at dawn, with the other (Friend 2). "They both worked for Cándido," he clarifies. It is at that moment that, according to him, the multiple sexual assault begins. "When I was in the room with Cándido and one of the friends, the other one called and while the three of them were touching me all over my body, they told me: 'We want to have a party with you.'"
The complainant tells how everything suddenly fell apart, with the three men groping her body without her consent. "The three of them began to touch me all over my body, my breasts and my buttocks, while they told me: 'You're so hot!' I responded: 'You're crazy. I don't want to do anything (about sex),'" she describes. . According to the woman, they did not stop, despite her insistence, especially one of them. "I made it very clear to them that I didn't want to do anything with the three of them," she insists.
The woman goes on to explain that at that moment "I ran out of the room," but the men chased him. "Cándido chased me and grabbed me by the hair. He put me in another room, threw me on the bed and then climbed up and started biting my neck," she says, insisting that she refused because she was "offering me to her friends." Even so, according to her story, the criminal threw her onto the bed and forced her "without a condom."
According to the complainant, the lawyer was not the same man she had met days before. To her, her mental state left a lot to be desired that night. She describes him as "uncontrolled" and "unrecognizable", even pointing out a moment when he would have gone "out of control". She also alludes to the consumption of drugs, without control, such as ketamine, cocaine or tusi (pink cocaine).
"At the time of the attack I struggled with him to get him to stop, but he didn't do so until he got up and left," he explains. The woman says that after those horrible moments, she left the house to call a taxi, but her passport was missing. She wanted to go back into the house, but the lawyer wouldn't let her. At that point, she said, she called the police.
Based on their testimony, the National Police proceeded to arrest Cándido Conde-Pumpido Varela and the two identified individuals on Friday, November 3.
Conde-Pumpido and the other two detainees were released last Sunday without precautionary measures after the chief magistrate of Court number 44 of Madrid estimated that the recordings from the security cameras of Conde-Pumpido's home distorted the version of the woman who has reported them for this alleged sexual assault.
As argued by the judge who released the detainees, in the images provided by Conde Pumpido's defense you can see different rooms of the chalet where the crime was allegedly committed in which one of the accused does not appear, in against the woman's version; "nor is there any situation similar to that described by the accused." The woman appears with Conde Pumpido, but without any situation that coincides with what was stated by the woman, who also did not present a report of injuries.
