The magistrates determine that Cifuentes’ fundamental right to personal privacy was violated
MADRID, 26 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Provincial Court of Madrid has sided with the former regional president Cristina Cifuentes in the lawsuit that she filed against Eroski for not guarding the video that forced her resignation in April 2018 when the magistrates determined that the supermarket chain violated her fundamental right to personal privacy.
This is stated in a sentence, to which Europa Press had access, in which the magistrates of the Twentieth Section partially uphold the appeal filed against the first instance resolution, issued by the Court of First Instance number 82 of Majadahonda, which is revoked.
In this way, the magistrates agree in part with Cifuentes in the lawsuit filed against Cecosa Hipermercados S.L., a subsidiary of Eroski, for violation of the fundamental rights of the plaintiff due to breach of the legal duties to guard and destroy the recording.
The dissemination of the images led to the resignation of Cifuentes at a time when the legality of the master’s degree he studied at the Institute of Public Law of the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) in the 2011-2012 academic year was questioned, a case of which was acquitted by the Justice.
The magistrates now declare that the conduct of the supermarket chain “constitutes a violation of the fundamental right of Cristina Cifuentes to her personal privacy, guaranteed in article 18 of the Spanish Constitution.”
The court reduces the compensation requested by the former regional president to 30,000 euros for damages for not adequately guarding the images recorded in the establishment on May 5, 2011. Cifuentes claimed 450,000 euros in the lawsuit.
As a result of this ruling, any commercial establishment, or institution of any kind, that collects security recordings, must make an effort to prevent the recorded images from being copied and to destroy them within 30 days, if they are not included in a criminal complaint.
