Overview
- Police say officers detained Ramón Fernández Paso after witnesses on Saturday, May 23 reported seeing an adult touching and kissing a 15-year-old near Paseo del Prado and Calle Alcalá.
- Witnesses told officers the man kissed the girl on the neck and shoulders and touched her thighs and buttocks while walking with her, prompting the patrol to intervene.
- Paso told police he is the girl’s theatre teacher and friend of the family and said he was consoling her; police reports record that the girl initially said he was consoling her and later told officers she had had sexual relations with the adult.
- Authorities processed the case at UFAM (the police family/women unit) and on May 25–26 presented Paso to the Juzgado de Violencia contra la Infancia y Adolescencia in Madrid, where potential charges relate to Spain’s age-of-consent rules.
- The arrest deepens a wider controversy after a 2024 Fiscalía complaint alleging sexual misconduct by Paso against multiple women, and has prompted theatres to suspend or remove his work while ministers and cultural bodies call for institutional measures.