Seville (EFE) after the modification of the so-called law of only yes is yes.
The defendant has assured that he does not remember anything about the events with which he is charged, which occurred last March, when two girls who were on Torneo street in Seville saw how the defendant approached them and masturbated in front of them. while insulting them.
The victims decided to record the stalker and posted the video on social networks, in order to alert other young women so that they would not go through the area to avoid meeting him, but the publication was detected by the Local Police Computer Unit, who decided to act ex officio.
For the prosecution, “a big step forward”
The deputy inspector of the police force, Antonio Barea, explained that the investigation was carried out “in the framework of work on the security of social networks”, and after detecting the specific publication “they contacted” the girls, and after several days of investigation located the perpetrator of the events, who had previously carried out similar actions.
For his part, the Prosecutor for Computer Crime, Gabriel González Fernández, stressed the importance of this case reaching trial – “a big step forward” -, since “until now this type of behavior was only a crime if victims were minors or had some kind of disability.”
Now, it has been tried as the first case in Spain for street harassment after the modification of the aforementioned law, and the Prosecutor’s Office has requested a sentence of 30 days for location, although this case could lead to jail, since he had a suspended sentence two years for another case of sexual abuse, which he would have to serve in case of committing a crime.
The Prosecutor’s Office has transferred the facts to the Provincial Court so that it can study the revocation of said suspension and order the accused’s admission to prison, at the expense of knowing the sentence for these facts that have now been prosecuted.