The former socialist militant Leire Díez has filed a lawsuit against the PP for the dissemination of a video made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that the party released this week, in which a digital recreation of Díez claimed to "have hired thugs to get rid of a judge," in a veiled reference to Judge Beatriz Biedma, the instructor of the case against David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
In a document addressed to the National Court, which Europa Press has accessed, her lawyer, Eva Bejarano, directs the criminal action against the PP for alleged crimes of defamation with publicity, against moral integrity, and digital identity theft.
As a precautionary measure, the former militant requests that the immediate removal of the video "from all accounts and digital spaces under the ownership or control" of the PP where it is hosted, as well as from any other profile or support, whether of natural or legal persons.
The document is presented before the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating an alleged scheme aimed at interfering with or destabilizing judicial proceedings affecting the PSOE, the Executive, and relatives of Pedro Sánchez, which, according to the investigation, would have been directed by former socialist leader Santos Cerdán and coordinated by Díez herself.
Last Wednesday, the PP disseminated a video generated with AI in which Díez; Begoña Gómez, wife of the head of the Executive; former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos; former socialist leader Santos Cerdán; and former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero were represented, all of them linked to various open cases in the courts.
“Absolutely false” facts and personal damages
"If hiring some thugs to get rid of a judge is being leftist, then yes, I am left-handed," the digital avatar of Leire Díez stated in the recording.
The PP piece imitated a video released that same morning by the PSOE on social media, in which Pedro Sánchez, taking advantage of the official visit to Spain of Argentine President Javier Milei, joked about the term 'leftist,' used by the Argentine leader to disqualify left-wing leaders. "If raising pensions is being leftist, I am leftist," Sánchez said in that sequence.
In this context, Díez's defense argues that the video, created "expressly and intentionally to humiliate, belittle, and provoke a serious detriment to the dignity" of the former socialist militant, would have reached "more than 21 million" views.
Díez's legal representation emphasizes that "the facts and claims contained in said publication are absolutely and unequivocally false," and that the PP "acted with full knowledge of the falsity of the disseminated data and with a reckless disregard for the truth, with the sole and unequivocal purpose of undermining the honor and dignity" of their client.
Díez claims that, after the dissemination of the video, both she and her daughters "have had to isolate themselves in their home," have suffered "an anxiety attack," and are "being subjected to all kinds of insults, disqualifications, and humiliations."
"The permanence of this video on the internet is causing an irreparable, devastating, and immediate harm to the honor, social reputation, family environment, and work sphere of Leire Díez, as it is perceived massively as a real confession of a criminal act," concludes the document submitted to the Audiencia Nacional.