Overview
- An examining judge in Seville issued a processing order that advances a case against Vito Quiles for alleged criminal insult and false accusation offenses tied to his 2022 posts about Facua’s Rubén Sánchez, and she named EDATV as subsidiarily civilly liable.
- The order says Quiles’s messages and videos went beyond protected speech and journalistic ethics, citing posts that called Sánchez a criminal and estafador and that insinuated links to pederasty.
- The case now proceeds under the procedimiento abreviado, which lets prosecutors file an indictment or seek dismissal within a 10‑day window set by the judge.
- Quiles testified in February 2025 that he could not prove his claims and said his attacks followed Twitter’s temporary suspension of his account in 2022, which he blamed on Sánchez.
- The activist also faces separate proceedings in Madrid over alleged revelation of secrets and harassment of Red Eléctrica’s president and has been reported by the PSOE for alleged harassment of senators and a commentator.