Three years in jail for the journalist who revealed a photograph and the info of the sufferer of ‘La Manada’

Josele Sánchez, director of ‘La Tribuna de Cartagena’ “critically vexed” the sufferer of ‘La Manada’ with the “intent of inflicting him hurt” when in May 2018 he revealed an opinion article entitled “I do not consider you” below a pseudonym. This is what the Justice of the Peace of the legal courtroom 2 of Cartagena believes, who has sentenced him to 3 years in jail and disqualification for a criminal offense in opposition to ethical integrity in competitors with one other for revealing secrets and techniques.

Expressions “clearly vexatious”

According to the ‘Open Case’, the sentence ensures that “the expressions (utilized by Sánchez) are clearly vexatious, however above all, this character is obvious within the publication of the title, surname, handle, college heart of the sufferer, and so on. , since in fact they’re utterly irrelevant to the opinion submitted”, the Justice of the Peace affirms in his decision.

“Look, lady, I do not consider you. You didn’t say “NO” at any time. And, certainly, they didn’t rape you (…). Going with 5 guys to a resort is to not play playing cards. You needed to go cool and have an expertise of ladies’s liberation of which a lot is talked about -and even recommended- now with gender ideology”; or: “you had been so drunk that you just determined to have it with 5 shitty thugs. But you went to fuck, no one pressured you, you probably did it as a result of your mountain physique requested you to”, are among the phrases that Josele Sánchez devoted to the sufferer on the time of the group rape of the Sanfermines of 2016.

Not lined by freedom of expression

Expressions that the choose acknowledges as “hurtful or lacerating to the one who seems to be the sufferer of a criminal offense in opposition to sexual freedom” one thing that’s not protected by regulation and “even much less the publication of pictures of clear sexual content material and the dissemination of identification information of the sufferer”, he assures in his letter.

The choose additionally dismantled the argument of freedom of expression utilized by the defendant and now sentenced to publish the aforementioned article. The Justice of the Peace assures that “the sexual lifetime of an individual should in any case be protected from illegitimate interference in the correct to privateness that should preside over all acts of a sexual nature and, within the case at hand, the {photograph} might be noticed by an indeterminate group of individuals by means of the networks, with out the consent of the affected social gathering and with all the actual circumstances of the case”.

Sánchez insists on his opinion

Far from exhibiting regret, the convicted journalist, after studying of the courtroom’s resolution, uploaded a video to ‘Youtube’ by which he as soon as once more gave the sufferer’s title and defended that what occurred on the night time of July 7, 2016 in Pamplona was not a gang rape. ” “Unlike the prosecutor who accused me and the choose who sentenced me, I’ve seen the tape the place sexual relations happen between (title of the younger girl), who’s the alleged sufferer, and the members of ‘La Manada’ , who appear despicable to me however in no case had been they rapists. It was consensual sexual relations,” he says.