Today, February 29, the news broke that the journalists and pararazzi Diego Arrabal and Gustavo González had been sentenced by the Provincial Court of Barcelona this Thursday to ten months in prison after having been declared the perpetrators responsible for a crime of revealing secrets due to the controversial photographs that were taken of Mariló Montero in a hotel in Bora Bora and in which she appeared naked, according to the media El Español, which had had access to the sentence.
In addition to the ten months in prison, the journalists must pay the presenter a fine of six euros per day for the next eight months. A sentence that has nothing to do with what the plaintiff requested a few weeks ago. And the presenter even asked for six years in prison and the payment of compensation worth 265,000 euros.
The events occurred during the Easter holidays of 2015. The presenter, who was in a hotel complex on the island of Bora Bora, was photographed by the paparazzi without her consent and in a private space while she was performing ‘top less’ .
At the trial, which took place last January, the plaintiff, the defendants and the director of the magazine Lecturas, who was given the photographic material to be published, testified. However, the journalist did not agree to purchase the material and the images never saw the light of day.
Likewise, the order of the Provincial Court number 3 of Barcelona indicates the special disqualification of Diego Arrabal and Gustavo González from the exercise of the right of passive suffrage during the duration of the sentence and the disqualification also from any activity related to press agencies. during the same period.
The sentence has come as a shock to Diego Arrabal himself, who hours after learning of the sentence published the following on his social networks: ”I am 52 years old. I have always believed in the justice of my country (Spain). Today, February 29, 2024, I stop believing. They warned me a few years ago, “Dieguito, they are coming for you,” it came from a very good source. Today it is confirmed, they want to destroy me. (Whoever has a godfather, gets baptized)”.
”Today is a sad day for press freedom, for so many professionals in Spain who dedicate themselves to this,” he declared on his YouTube channel. ”The sentence that has been imposed on both Gustavo and me is the greatest aberration and the greatest injustice,” the paparazzi asserted.
