The president of Red Eléctrica (Redeia), Beatriz Corredor, filed a lawsuit against Vito Quiles, a pseudo-journalist known for his political agitation on social media, and Madrid's Court Number 23 has responded by opening an investigation against the agitator. Corredor accused Quiles of crimes of harassment and violation of privacy, for disseminating the address and photographs of her private residence on his social media after the blackout of April 28, 2025, where he has tens of thousands of followers.
The lawsuit alleges that the accused disseminated information in several publications that, according to Corredor's legal representation, made it possible to identify and locate his home, which would constitute a violation of his right to personal and family privacy. The document also incorporates comments from other users who, as a consequence of those messages, incited possible acts of harassment or gatherings at his residence.
April 7, 2026 will be when Quiles must attend his summons at the courthouse, although it has been difficult to notify him, as it has been a difficult task to locate the investigated person at his known addresses. For his part, Quiles defends himself by alleging that his publications were a “work of journalistic interest” to try to capture Corredor's management after the national blackout of 2025, and denies having been able to violate her privacy or put it in danger.
The crime that is being investigated could lead him to face penalties of up to three or four years in prison if it is finally proven that the disseminated data was carried out without justification and harming the fundamental rights of the affected party.
His other open fronts
It is not the first time that Vito Quiles' "journalism" ends up in court. The Court of Instruction number 18 of Seville still has an open case against him for an alleged crime of slander and libel following statements made in 2022 on his social networks and on a program from EDATV.news, linked to Javier Negre. In them, he accused Rubén Sánchez, general secretary of Facua, of crimes such as extortion, fraud, and threats.
Outside the judicial sphere, his behavior has also generated concerns in the parliamentary sphere. The Association of Parliamentary Journalists (APP) has on different occasions demanded that his accreditation be temporarily withdrawn from the Congress of Deputies, considering that his way of acting does not respect the basic norms of the profession. Currently, the Bureau of the Congress is studying whether to adopt disciplinary measures with the individual, after he recorded with his mobile phone and disseminated the images on social media from a restricted area of the building. On December 11, one of those episodes occurred, when he recorded President Pedro Sánchez during the presentation of the series Anatomía de un instante.
A few days earlier, on November 20, he also followed former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after an event held in the Lower House. The APP had already requested measures in June 2024 due to the incompatibility between his presence at parliamentary press conferences and his role as head of communication for Se Acabó la Fiesta (SALF), promoted by Luis Alvise Pérez, in whose candidacies he ran in the European elections of that year, although he later distanced himself from that formation.
Furthermore, even journalists and other professionals who are aware of what could be considered his "malpractice" in the journalistic field are also reporting Quiles, including for the harassment they claim to be subjected to. This is the case of Sarah Santaolalla, who reported Vito Quiles for the scenes of harassment she suffered when leaving RTVE, which in her own words, "was violent harassment in Prado del Rey, trying to bypass all kinds of controls, recklessly following me on the road and showing up at my house with three more thugs, whom the police had to remove from my building and the bar downstairs. I had to spend more than 4 hours at the police station, I had to ask officers for help.”
This last procedure is added to the fronts that Quiles has open due to his behavior in recent years, most of them linked to his way of confronting public officials in the street and to the complaints for messages considered offensive or disqualifying by those who have suffered them on social networks.
