The lawyer Nicolás López: "Respect for women can not be built on the basis of false accusations" | Society

The lawyer Paula Vial, who defends Nicolás López after being denounced by eight women victims of badual abuse, explains why she decided to take over the case of the Chilean filmmaker

. in an interview with La Tercera that " no, I did not know him personally, but I had a name When I was younger, I was reading in the Zone Contact, I wrote a column a very talented guy, although at that time he was super small, but then, nothing, I saw some of his films. "

In this line, he revealed why he decided to defend the creator of "What a shame of your life." " What he showed us, the evidence that I saw, m '# 39; suggested that his story was solid . " He made a lot of sense to me, what he showed me and, well, I believed him. I thought it was good to defend him, "he said.

What did you specifically believe?" I believe it's n & # 39; He is not an aggressor, as he says he may have been a despitre, a fool, but it's not a crime and I, as a criminal, focused on the evidence that his conduct "This is not constitutive what lawyers do when we defend ourselves," said the lawyer.

Interrogated to find out if he believed the testimonies of women who were denouncing Lopez , he said: "As they are related in this clear report that they appear to be constitutive of the crime, but we have evidence that this is not the case. And that generates my conviction . "

Do you believe that you can be a feminist and, at the same time, defend a person accused of abuse?" It seems to me absolutely compatible, in this case, if I did not have Nicolás believed, I would not have taken the case but I believe in its history and it seems important to me, even in the feminist world, to establish certain standards with regard to complaints and in the The space where they are made, I feel a lot what the women who appear in the report felt about Nicolás, but I'm moving into the world of evidence and that's why I thought I do not think that justice or respect for women's rights can be built on false allegations and I think situations like this, where we have badyzed evidence that says that contrary to what some have pointed out, they render a disservice to real cases, "said Vi al.