Víctor G.T., the alleged accuser of the artist and writer Paula Bonet, faced the trial yesterday in which the accusation asks for four years in prison and the Prosecutor’s Office, three. He was in the criminal court number 10 of Barcelona, ??in the Ciutat de la Justícia. The defense, represented by the lawyer Sergi Mercé, asks for acquittal and alleges as defense an “erotomanic delusional mental disorder, which consists of believing that someone in a higher stage has fallen in love with you.”
If Mercé assured that the defendant is undergoing treatment for this, Bonet’s lawyer, Carla Vall, doubts that he suffers from “this disease, which appeared by surprise a month ago, when we have been in a three-year process. The coroner attached to the court denies it.
The events judged began in mid-2019, when the defendant began to send messages and appear in person at the workshop of the artist and writer. Once, he sent her a cut-up plastic eel in an envelope, and another time he wrote insulting and threatening tweets. Bonet annulled her courses, changed address and lived semi-hidden. The judge issued a restraining order that he skipped. One morning, he grabbed the bars of Bonet’s workshop window and yelled at him.
Mercé understands that, at first, her client “insistently wanted some kind of relationship, contact her, attended the places where she went, but without the intention of intimidating.” The violent messages on social networks “arrive later, as he is forced to do so to defend himself from the attacks he received through the media”, which would have caused the accused “to be threatened with physical attacks on him and his family” , which the prosecution denies. But what about the threatening messages from him? Victor GT. He explains it by “black bile. Reading what she said about me, I had a fit and wanted to vent in a sarcastic way. Ours was a literary game, like a battle of roosters”. For Vall, “when everyone interprets something as threats, the one who has a problem is the one who says that he is going to rape and kill her.”
Victor GT. He explained that he “had an interest in women’s literature. I attended her talks, I saw that she noticed me, she threw the bait at me, I perceived that she liked me, but that due to conditions such as the difference in age or status she did not dare to take the step and invited me to take it ”.
And the eel cut into pieces in an envelope marked ‘the rapist’? Here the lawyer replied: “In the portal of his building, my client found an eel. He interpreted that Mrs. Bonet had left it for him to draw her attention, in the context of the disorder she suffers from. As the eel meant the aggressors, he cut it into pieces and sent it to them with a drawn smile.
Vall sees such statements as “insulting”, such as those that Bonet sought fame with the subject, because “he chooses her because she is already famous, and subjects her to persecution that prevents her from presenting books, teaching classes and holding exhibitions.”
“It seems to us a disproportionate accusation -says Mercé-, like the same provisional prison, where he has spent ten months for crimes whose sentence does not exceed two years, so if he was convicted it is likely that he would not have reached enter jail. We believe that the balloon has been inflated by the media”.
Vall reveals that, thanks to Bonet’s complaint, a new victim of the defendant emerged in another city, for which he has been charged in another case. “We are facing an aggressor profile that hates women and therefore attacks them.”
