Alfonso Serrano, secretary general of the PP of Madrid, filed the complaint after a plenary session in the Asamblea de Madrid. The party says Manuela Bergerot’s warning about unrest in the capital could amount to a physical threat.
Bergerot is Más Madrid’s spokesperson in the regional chamber. Europa Press reports that the complaint asks the Policía Nacional to assess whether her words could have criminal or administrative significance. It also requests an examination of the full parliamentary recording and related material, including publications and videos linked to the protests.
Bergerot said there would be no peace in Madrid’s streets after Maricarmen’s death. The PP rejected this as a purely political statement. Isabel Díaz Ayuso challenged Bergerot during the session, asking whether she was physically threatening politicians.
Carlos Díaz-Pache, the PP spokesperson, pressed the same point more forcefully. His intervention prolonged the dispute inside the chamber and shifted attention from the housing case to the possible meaning of Bergerot’s words. The account cited in the complaint and in the Asamblea’s Diario de Sesiones says Bergerot confirmed that there would be no peace in Madrid’s streets.
The PP also wrote to Government delegate Francisco Martín, asking him to guarantee order and protect PP politicians and their supporters, including activists. The complaint came amid heightened tension and a protest encampment around Puerta del Sol. The party also called for possible coercion and breaches of public order to be stopped.
In the letter, the party says Francisco Martín will be responsible for anything that happens to anyone affiliated with the PP, from its leaders to its supporters. That takes the dispute beyond the Assembly and assigns political responsibility to the central government’s representative in the region.
The immediate trigger was Maricarmen’s death after her eviction. Maricarmen Abascal was 87. She was removed from her home in Madrid on 23 September, spent about 15 days in hospital, then died on 7 October at Gregorio Marañón Hospital.
Information from the Sindicato de Inquilinas, the parties eventually reached an agreement intended to let her return home. It took effect too late. The case turned a rent dispute into a wider housing flashpoint.
PP chairman Alberto Núñez Feijóo offered condolences to Maricarmen’s family while warning against turning her death into a party campaign or an exercise in political exploitation.
That background drove the confrontation in the regional chamber. Más Madrid presented Bergerot’s words as a reaction to a death that had shaken the housing debate. The PP treated them as a warning aimed at its people and responded through the police and the Government delegate.
The legal question remains open. The PP filed its complaint and asked police to examine a possible offence. No criminal proceedings or charges against Bergerot have been reported, and prosecutors have issued no official assessment.
