Overview
- The investigating judge, Manuel Marchena, issued an order requesting the suspension of Luis Pérez Fernández’s immunity so a criminal case for harassment and disclosure of secrets can proceed.
- The case focuses on a podcast in which Pérez, known as Alvise, urged followers to pursue two fellow MEPs over a vote on European rearmament and suggested they had been bribed.
- The two complainants, identified as Diego Solier and Nora Junco, say he shared their contact details, which triggered waves of online threats, insults and defamation that forced changes to their daily routines.
- Marchena argues the alleged doxxing and calls to harass go beyond protected political debate, so parliamentary inviolability does not shield the conduct.
- The order is a suplicatorio, the formal request to lift an MEP’s immunity, and it is the third such request in five Supreme Court cases involving Pérez, with Parliament now set to review the file before any prosecution can begin.