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Town mayor to be questioned over councilor’s cellphone sex video

Popular Party leader in Los Yébenes says he has no idea how the images spread across the internet

Natalia Junquera

The Popular Party (PP) mayor of the Toledo town of Los Yébenes has been subpoenaed to appear in court later this month as an official target in an ongoing investigation in leaking of an intimate sex video that a Socialist town councilor made for her husband.

Pedro Acevedo has not been charged with any crime, but he was ordered to appear before a judge in Orgaz with his lawyer on September 27 to answer questions concerning complaints filed by councilor Olvido Hormigos, who claimed that her right to privacy had been violated.

“I didn’t leak that video – neither on a massive or small scale. I don’t understand what is happening,” Acevedo told EL PAÍS. “The entire town has returned to normalcy -- in fact we are in the middle of our patron saint festival.”

A 27-year-old soccer player, who has not been identified, has already been charged in the case. The suspect is said to have been a former friend of Hormigos.

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The entire sex tape episode has made international headlines when Hormigos announced on September 3 that she would step down because of the fallout after the tape was leaked and posted on YouTube. She had filed three complaints, the first being on August 13, when the video was being sent via the WhatsApp mobile-based messaging service.

Hormigos filed another complaint after someone sent her an email from the mayor’s office with the video attached.

After receiving overwhelming support from her constituents and people across the country, including some leading PP officials, Hormigos changed her mind about resigning.

“I have decided that I am not going to resign. There are worst things in politics and what I have done in fact is not a crime. I am a victim,” Hormigos told EL PAÍS last week.

The video was in her cellphone, but she said she doesn’t know how someone was able to access it. “They didn’t steal my phone. All I know that it was being sent on WhatsApp and two hours later the entire town had it, including residents of other nearby towns.”

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