Julio Iglesias's lawyer has entered the case and there are conflicts with Lady. The lawyer argues that "in this situation, the need for information reserve cannot be invoked to protect a supposed victim who has voluntarily participated in the public dissemination of the complaint through an Association whose legal advice, it is said, has been accepted by the complainants." The Prosecutor's Office has for the moment rejected Julio Iglesias's request to be admitted to the investigation to have direct access to the content of the complaint. According to the Prosecutor's Office decree, to which EFE had access this Monday, that step is not appropriate for now, as the task now is to determine if the National Court has jurisdiction to investigate the complaint against singer Julio Iglesias for alleged sexual harassment and assault in 2021 against two employees in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The lawyer for Julio Iglesias has asked the National Court Prosecutor's Office to file the pre-trial proceedings, declared secret, which investigate a complaint against singer Julio Iglesias for alleged sexual harassment and assault in 2021 against two employees in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. In a 15-page document, seen by EFE, Iglesias's lawyer, José Antonio Choclán, considers that Spanish courts "lack (and by extension the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court) jurisdiction to ascertain the facts alleged," taking into account that the complainants are not of Spanish nationality, are not minors, and that the singer has his habitual residence in the Dominican Republic, where the events supposedly took place. He believes that, in any case, the complaint should have been filed in the Dominican Republic, which is why the Prosecutor's Office "must declare, without further proceedings, the lack of Spanish jurisdiction to hear the facts alleged, immediately filing the Pre-trial Investigation proceedings initiated and stopping the media campaign that has been launched, with serious reputational damage." "There is no doubt that reporting in Spain, as evidenced by the media impact used by the supposed victims, is more favorable to their interests than reporting the fact in the place of its supposed commission," the lawyer criticizes, pointing out that the very organization that filed the complaint on behalf of the victims, Women’s Link, "has published that Spain was chosen to ensure greater effectiveness in the investigation." Lawyer demands to be admitted to the investigation. The lawyer also demands that he be allowed to join the Prosecutor's Office's investigation to have direct access to the content of the complaint, regardless of whether there is not yet a judicial procedure, in order to exercise his defense in the proceedings to be carried out, such as the statement of the complainants, "which, according to what is published, we do not know if it is true, the Prosecutor's Office has decided." In this way, he adds, it could be proven "the falsity of the allegations and to defend the honor of my client, without prejudice to the other actions available to him in the protection of his fundamental rights against the abusive exercise of criminal actions and aggressive media campaigns that lead him to an unavoidable natural penalty, outside the process."
