“This started with an incident at the Premios Feroz last year. From there, we started investigating and came up with this story.” This is how Ana Marcos, journalist from ‘El País’, has summarized: the research that has been carried out along with his colleagues Elena Reina and Gregorio Belinchón about the Carlos Vermut scandal. That is, regarding the complaint that the film director has received from three women for sexual violence.

Marcos refers to what the multifaceted artist Jedet suffered, who was the victim of sexual assault at the Feroz Awards. Jedet suffered “chest touches” presumably by producer Javier Pérez Santana, part of the team of one of the films then nominated for the Feroz. His complaint seemed to give rise to a kind of ‘me too’ in Spain, even with the complexity that this entails.

“Like many sectors, it is difficult for someone to believe you. It has happened to them,” highlighted ‘El País’ journalist Elena Reina. The journalists, who have been working on it for 11 months, have assured laSexta that They continue to investigate accusations that have shaken the foundations from the world of cinema. The victims have recounted in detail what they would have suffered with the acclaimed film director.

The first woman says that she met Vermut at a party and she invited him home. She relates that, once there, the director jumped on top of her and began to strangle her, which She kicked scared until she stopped. and he told her she didn’t deserve this. “Then, I don’t know why, because she was very confused, I even told her: ‘Okay, forgive me, forgive me,'” he told the newspaper. After that, they continued, and the woman says that she only remembers that she asked him to use a condom, but to no avail.

Faced with this accusation, the director has admitted to the newspaper that he had practiced rough sex, but always with consent, because, He says, for him consent “is very important”; that whenever they ask him, he uses a condom. Another testimony is that of a woman who claims to have had relations with him while they worked together. Relationships with violence that he did not consent to, he says: “Maybe I didn’t really want to, but I knew that was going to happen. And I was afraid to do it. I tried to convince myself that I had to like that way of conceiving relationships.”

In this case, Vermouth has blamed to her “promiscuous” life and having practiced “many types of sex” living this situation. Finally, another woman has recounted how he ripped off her bra and ended up screaming her out of her house. Here, Vermut has even responded that if he goes up with someone on his couch or in his bed, he assumes that he has a sexual intention.