The convicted man had appealed the sentence considering that his right to defense and his innocence had been violated.
He Supreme Court has confirmed the sanction of 20 days of arrest in a military disciplinary establishment to a soldier of the EMU for participating in parties with girls and alcohol at the Sa Coma facilities on the island of Ibiza during the pandemic, according to Confilegal. He Central Military Court He convicted the soldier—and two other colleagues—for these events on November 29, 2022.
The convicted man appealed the sentence to the Supreme Court considering that his right to defense and his innocence had been violated. But now the magistrates have considered that there was enough evidence to convict him.
The soldier, who was stationed in the Sa Coma Military Emergency Unit Detachment, took advantage of his stay on the island in the summer of 2020 to organize parties with civilian women and men entering and leaving the facilities without authorization, next to the Padre Morey Juvenile Center. At the parties the alcohol flowed, the music played and the noises of sexual acts lasted until the early hours of the morning. All this while the population of the islands was subjected to tough restrictions to contain the pandemic.
Another soldier and a corporal were also involved in the case and were sentenced by the Central Military Court to 20 and 25 days of arrest respectively.
Just one day before the arrival of these three soldiers, now sanctioned by the Central Military Court, the Balearic Government approved a battery of prohibitions that put an end to the already diminished tourist season and whose objective was to avoid a new total confinement, as as Diario de Ibiza published when the events emerged.
It was staff from the Island Council who He reported the military’s inappropriate conduct to his superiors (the chief lieutenant colonel of BIEM III, and the chief commander of the BIEM III Operations Core), who launched the investigation that ended in the opening of a disciplinary file. The soldiers were assigned to the Third Emergency Intervention Battalion (BIEM III), located at the Jaime I Military Base in Bétera (Valencia), and were part of the 5th rotation of the semi-fixed Detachment in sa Coma.