Guàrdia detailed that the UB had the first evidence of the case in mid-June 2025, when lawyers requested information, and provisionally suspended Flecha in July. An independent commission began working in September and sent the case to the Prosecutor's Office in December, applying the protocol with “all legal guarantees.”
The preliminary report from this commission already pointed to the existence of a “coercive group of high control” and served to suspend two professors and an honorary professor, in addition to Flecha's suspension. The rector warned that “it was not necessary to wait for all statements to act.”
Parliamentary groups (Comuns, CUP, ERC) criticized the university for impunity, recalling that there were archived internal complaints from 2004 and 2016. Susana Segovia (Comuns) and Xavi Pellicer (CUP) regretted that the problem had existed for 20 years and that the institutional apparatus had failed before 2025.
“"Clearly, the name of the University of Barcelona opens doors. And that is why the UB will present itself as a private prosecution."
Guàrdia responded that internal protocols have improved since then, as the two previous complaints were archived both by the Prosecutor's Office and internally by the university. He stressed that the current complaints, dating back to 2012, 2013, and 2014, focus on sexual relations with students and workers, unlike the previous ones that dealt with alleged sectarian behavior by the CREA group.
“"It was a widespread outcry. Many people knew about it."
Trinidad Donoso recalled that up to 400 people adhered to the complaint statement and requested that the internal commission continue investigating. She assured that the “strategies and operating techniques” of the former CREA research group, which ceased to be an internal structure in May 2015, are still present at the university.
