The events took place in the Plaza de Navarrería on October 12, 2022, the Hispanic Heritage Day, when an Aske mobilization was to begin under the motto ‘Indar errepresiboak suntsitu’.
The head of Criminal Court Number 3 of Pamplona has pronounced a verdict 1 year and 9 months in prison against two people for coercion. He October 12, 2022In the old town of the capital of Navarre, they argued with a man carrying the Spanish flag on the occasion of the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Day.
The events took place in the Plaza de Navarrería at 6:30 PM Aske mobilization under the motto ‘Indar errepresiboak suntsitu’. A person with a Spanish flag appeared on the scene, which the demonstrators interpreted as a provocation and reproached him. The judge points out in the ruling that the meetings were “of a different ideology than that represented” by the injured party, which is linked by the organizers of the mobilization to the far-right party Vox.
In the sense, which appeal can be filed with the Provincial Courtthe judge thinks so exacerbate discrimination“given that the intimidating physical force exerted” against the man, “against whom one of the defendants tried to hit him and the other to take his flag, was motivated by the fact that he had the Spanish flag on his shoulders.”
As the judge found proven, “with a spirit of contempt and rejection towards him because of his skin color and because of the contempt and rejection of the ideology that they considered represented by the Spanish flag he carried, one of the defendants punched him. towards him that he could dodge, while the other accused tried to take away the flag by force, all accompanied by shouts from outside and beltza (black) insults.
According to the court resolution, the bearer of the Spanish flag stated that he felt “affected and humiliated” because he could not be or go where he wanted. He indicated that ‘Only in Spain does it happen that someone cannot fly with their flag’.
The convicted men, residents of Pamplona, both 31 years old, must jointly and severally compensate the man with 900 euros and they will not be able to communicate with him or approach him less than 50 meters for 2 years and 9 months.
Source: EITB
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