Spain: Supreme Court rejects the paternity suit against King

USPA NEWS - The Supreme Court of Spain rejected by seven votes to three the paternity suit filed against King Juan Carlos by Belgian citizen Ingrid Sartiau. The House of the King expressed his respect for judicial decisions.

The Civil Division of the High Court allowed the appeal Emeritus monarch against the order of admissibility that the same court had issued on January 14, and rejected submitted by Sartiau, who said he did not answer his request requesting DNA testing. The prosecutor objected to conducting a DNA test to King Juan Carlos, the "little probative flow" containing the demand for Ingrid Sartiau.

Demand for the Belgian citizen was admissible on the basis of a report of a notary of Ghent (Belgium) which collected the statements made by the applicant's mother, Liliane Sartiau, who claimed that in December 1965, when she was on holiday in the Spanish Costa del Sol, met in a nightclub "a man of 31 years old, very gentle, handsome and sweet and handsome, with blue eyes, which kept intimate relationships for three nights on a luxury hotel ".

Liliane Sartiau assured that the next day was informed by a hotel employee that "it was the Prince Juan Carlos of Spain", and stressed that after these meetings had no further intercourse, which "guarantees 100% Ingrid is the daughter of Juan Carlos I ". The monarch defense relied on some contradictions detected in the declaration of the applicant, as Juan Carlos de Borbón not have blue eyes nor was 31 in 1965, plus it did not specify the name of the place of the Costa del Sol and nor the name of the nightclub where they met supposedly, among other data.