The head of the Investigative Court number 2 of Alcalá de Henares has summoned Alfonso Serrano, number two of the Madrid PP, to testify as a witness in the investigation against the mayor of the town for the leak of an internal document from the local Police that the politician used to defend the Madrid president's claims linking a group of immigrants to sexual crimes. Serrano must appear in court on December 2, as will the Councilor for Citizen Security, Orlena María de Miguel Muñoz, and the third deputy mayor, Gustavo Severien Tigeras, also as witnesses, according to the ordering procedure to which elDiario.es has had access.
The mayor of the Alcalá municipality, Judith Piquet, made several public statements in January 2024 in which she alluded to two reports of sexual assaults allegedly committed by “a young black male.” She did so after the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, went to this town to celebrate the Government Council to support the mayor after some altercations in which immigrants transferred from the Canary Islands to the Reception, Emergency and Referral Center (CAED), located in the Primo de Rivera barracks in Alcalá de Henares, participated.
The president assured at the press conference that in the center where the immigrants were grouped there had been “several serious brawls” and that “some women from the municipality” had reported “sexual assaults” allegedly committed by the center's inmates. Next, the general secretary of the PP of Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, published on his X account an internal note from the Alcalá Municipal Police about an attempted attack by “a young black man.” The mayor of Alcalá retweeted Serrano's comment on the social network.
Serrano responded to a tweet from elDiario.es, conveying information from the medium about Ayuso's statements. The headline of this newspaper read like this: “Ayuso links immigration without evidence to sexual assaults and an outbreak of scabies in Alcalá de Henares.” Serrano responded with a publication in which he wrote “No evidence” and in which he attached a screenshot of an internal note from the local police about the woman's complaint that spoke of “a young black man.”
The PSOE filed a complaint for a possible crime of infidelity in the custody of documents against the mayor and the councilor's press officer. Piquet declared last January that she was under investigation and denied being the leaker of the internal police document. The defense requested that the case be archived, which the Prosecutor's Office opposed. Last May, the Provincial Court approved continuing with the investigation.
In the ordering procedure, the magistrate requires the head of the local Police to provide “the complete transcription of the recording” of the conversation he had with the Councilor for Citizen Security, whose existence has been revealed within the case. The police officer must also provide the WhatsApp messages exchanged with the councilor on January 18, as well as with Raúl Castillo, the press chief of the Alcalá City Council, who is also listed as under investigation. The court will compare both contributions on November 10.