The court believes that the defendants have created an environment of aggressiveness, intimidation and violence that prevented the normal development of the Electoral Act. The punishment is not strong and can be appealed for the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country.
The Bizkaia hearing has sentenced nine people between 4 and 10 months in prison for preventing an election law from Vox in Bilbao on 5 November 2019. The VOX ideology, which influences the normal development of the event.
The resolution notes that the defendants have actively participated in the disruptions that took place in the Plaza de la Encarnación de Atxuri, where around 150 people came together. During the law, insults and threats for VOX members were pronounced and the police were tried, as a result of which the training announced their election program, as permitted by the Electoral Act.
Vox was planning to install an informative tent between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., but the law was interrupted by the arrival of demonstrators who expressed offensive insults and expressions. According to the punishment, threats were also produced against the VOX representative in Bizkaia, Nerea Alzola, and attempts to aggression to those in the tent.
The court believes that the defendants have created an environment of aggressiveness, intimidation and violence that prevented the normal development of the Electoral Act. Eight of the defendants admitted the facts during the trial and the court applied a mitigating delay in the judicial trial. However, they were acquitted of the crimes of hatred, coercion and insults.
The punishment is not strong and can be appealed for the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country. Vox has expressed his satisfaction with the ruling, although he does not sufficiently consider it and criticizes the lack of support from other political parties, which is eligible as a systematic persecution against his education in Euskadi.
Source: EITB
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