The Supreme Court is investigating a conservative Senator for the Canary Islands for allegedly beating his wife.
On the 2nd of August, around six in the afternoon, Senator Borja Benítez de Lugo, went around to his ex-wife’s home in Las Palmas, where she lived with her parents and sister. The reason that he did this was to collect their daughter as it was his turn to have her. A violent argument erupted.
During the course of the row, he allegedly gave her a violent blow with his elbow, whilst at the same time offering, “Filthy slut! I’m going to kill you.” He followed this by reportedly shaking her violently and shoving against the wall, as she screamed, “Don’t hit me, don’t hit me anymore!”
As the said gentlemen enjoys immunity from the normal course of justice, he has to be tried by the Supreme Court, who will decided whether to lift his immunity so that he can be judged at a normal court.
According to the wife, Elsa Maria Kaehler, this was not the first time that he had mistreated her both verbally and physically. She claimed that on occasions he would say, “Without me you are nothing. If you divorce me, you will sink in the mud. You are nobody but I have political power. Where do you think that you could go without me?”
Other alleged terms of endearment were, “I have enough time to see you sink without being able to lift your head, but if you do, I will push it under again!”
The Senator, on the other hand, also presented a medical report to match his ex-wife’s one, which said that he was left highly nervous after the events of the 2nd of August and that she, her sister and his mother-in-law had tried to attack him.
Upon leaving the house, he came across two municipal policemen, to whom he explained what had just happened, whilst his ex shouted out of the window, “You’re shameless! I am going to report you! You don’t even want to pay for your daughter’s education.”
Well, let’s see what the Supreme Court decides… In the meantime, criminal proceedings have been opened against him, pending a decision on his immunity, be a normal judge.
(News, Canary Islands, Spain)