Overview

• Paloma Lago has accused Alfonso Villares of sexual assault allegedly carried out in December 2024 at her home in Ferrol.
• Lago’s complaint describes waking up naked and disoriented, and a family member’s emergency call four days later supports her account.
• Villares resigned as conselleiro do Mar on June 4 following notification of a formal investigation and continues to deny the allegations.
• The case has been transferred from the Galician High Court to the Ferrol courts now that Villares has lost his aforado status.
• Ana Obregón and Javier García Obregón have publicly backed Lago as the legal process advances