«It is the first time in Spain that a police officer is going to go to prison for homophobia", has explained Sonia Alive
GAYLES.TV.- After several years, we finally know the sentence of the Supreme Court about the case of Sonia Alive. The current councilor of Social Justice, Feminism and LGTBI of Palma de Mallorca denounced three colleagues from the Local police for having ridiculed her for being a lesbian for almost ten years.
El Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction against the two agents of the Palma Local Police, Rafael Puigros y Albert John. The former will have to serve three years in prison, while his partner has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
The courts found them guilty of a crime of coercion and Rafael PuigrosFurthermore, he was also found guilty of false accusation and false testimony. He Supreme Court It has partially upheld the appeal of the two agents, not in terms of prison sentences, but in terms of disqualification.
The judges understand, unlike what the Palma audience y the TSJB, that there is no direct relationship between the exercise of office and the crime committed. In fact, the most serious crime for which they were tried, which was harassment of the councilor Sonia Alive, had prescribed. However, they were convicted of the crimes they committed after being denounced by their partner.
Lesbophobia in the Local Police
The proven facts of the appealed judgment show that both defendants, “Moved by their hatred and contempt for the homosexual condition of a colleague from Palma's night motorized unit, and making it the usual way of relating to her, they made jokes, gestures and mocks of her«. All this generated psychological affectation in the victim. Alive revealed the harassment he had suffered in the San Fernando barracks by certain fellow police officers, who had harassed and belittled her for her lesbian status in an interview on the radio.
The two agents felt alluded to and, in order to discredit and punish their partner, they contacted a woman who was at odds with the agent to collaborate with her testimony and actions against her. Later, Rafael Puigros He filed a false complaint against his former partner, whom he accused of trying to attack a detainee. It was shown that this episode referred to by the condemned agent occurred on a day that Alive did not go to work.
«It is the first time in Spain that a police officer is going to go to prison for homophobia", has explained Alive, who has celebrated the endorsement of Supreme. "At last the hell of twelve years that I have suffered in my flesh, for homophobia and for being a complainant of corruption in the Cursach case”. This case uncovered corruption schemes in Mallorca that peppered the police and politicians linked to drug trafficking, trafficking for prostitution and influence peddling.
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