The president of the Vox Balearic Parliament, in the opinion for hate crime | Spain

The president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Senne, will be tried for a crime of hate after dismissing THE PALMA AUDIENCE THE RESOURCE Against its processing for breaking a photograph of Republican shot in 1937.

The Court has rejected the appeal he raised last February against his imputation by the head of the Court of Instruction 1 of Palma, Juan Manuel Sobrino, who against the prosecutor’s criteria ordered the opening of trial to the deputy of Vox.

The president of the Parliament argued in his appeal that the judge’s decision was « illogical and arbitrary » because he made « a biased and partial interpretation of the proceedings practiced », in which not enough indications had been obtained to bring him to trial for accidental facts.

The episode in question occurred on June 18 of last year during the parliamentary debate on the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law of Balearic Islands. The Second Vice President of the Chamber, Mercedes Garrido, had placed a photograph in which several republican repulsions of the Francoism had placed on the cover of her laptop. Senne demanded that he remove it to guarantee the « neutrality » of Parliament, to which Garrido refused. Le Senne ended up starting the photo of his seat of a pull and expelled him with his partner, the second secretary of the table, the socialist deputy Pilar Costa