Sentenced to three months in prison for insulting and threatening politicians on YouTube

02/14/2023 at 15:10

TEC


He also harassed and harassed civil guards

The Fourth Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has been sentenced to three months in prison for a crime committed on the occasion of the exercise of the fundamental rights and public liberties recognized in the Constitution to a man who spread on his channel Youtube videos in which he insulted, harassed, harassed and threatened politicians or civil guards from Faurathe municipality in which he lived, as well as people from different ethnic groups residing in Spain.

The judgment, handed down after the parties reached an agreement whereby the convicted person recognized the crimes and showed his agreement with the sentence, it also prevents him from going to the place of the facts, that is, to the YouTube portal, for two yearss, which implies the closure of your channel and the impossibility of creating other accounts in it.

Furthermore, the resolution iimposes various fines on the offender -one for the aforementioned hate crime, another seven for as many minor offenses of threats and an eighth for a minor offense of harassment- and six years of special disqualification from practicing any profession or trade in the educational, teaching, sports or leisure. Finally, he agrees to the destruction and deletion of part of the released videos.

The facts occurred during the first half of 2020 when, according to the account of proven facts contained in the resolution, the man published audiovisual material on his YouTube channel, accessible to any Internet user and with unlimited advertising potential, consisting of videos in which he harassed, harassed, and threatened different Known people in Faura, such as members of the Civil Guard or political officials.

On that channel, according to the sentence, which was well known in the town, the condemned He also publicly expressed a “hostile, violent, denigrating and attacking” speech & rdquor; against the dignity of people of other races residing in Spain.

Thus, with respect to the members of these ethnic groups, he defended their expulsion from the national territory and the non-recognition of their basic rights and used an aggressive, challenging, contemptuous, and deeply offensive tone with incitement to violence.

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