“The intelligence of a black person is like that of a 6-year-old white child with Down syndrome,” “H. was right when he said that gypsies are a people of subhuman parasites.” It is one of the phrases found by the Mossos d’Esquadra in the bubble.info public forum in the investigation by the Catalan police and the Civil Guard for which in 2020 they were arrested in La Pobla de Cérvoles (Lleida), Campello (Alicante) , Ronda (Málaga) four alleged supremacists. In some of their manifestos they encouraged the creation of militias to prepare for any scenario, including “hypothetical racial wars.”
Three were tried this Thursday in the Lleida Court. It is the first trial in Spain against alleged supremacists. The two main defendants have acknowledged the crime of hate against foreigners and have accepted, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, two and a half years in prison. One of them has also recognized the crime of illegal possession of weapons and has accepted another year. Both were facing a crime against public health for having a marijuana plantation in La Pobla de Cérvoles, which they destroyed.
The Prosecutor’s Office, which initially requested up to eleven years in prison, has withdrawn the charges against one of the accused for the crime against public health. The fourth defendant, who has not agreed, has been tried for possession of weapons and a crime against public health. His lawyer, José Luis Jiménez Ortega, maintains that the police have committed fraud by spending a year and a half investigating without informing the justice system. With this argument he has requested the annulment of the proceedings
The lawyer has justified his client’s possession of ketamine by explaining that his family owns a livestock farm and had been recommended to him years ago by the veterinarian who owned the farm at the time, and has insisted that the weapons were not his property, but rather his. his brother who do have a weapons license.
The lawyers of the two alleged supremacists who have agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office maintain that with sentences as high as those requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, conformities are being forced that in many cases would not be appropriate. They defend that there are recommendations from the Council of Europe that maintain that when there is no violence, what is appropriate is to moderate the penalties and look for alternatives such as community work or courses on acceptance of diversity.
“It is clear that they met the elements of the type of crime, they were going to be sentenced and the Prosecutor’s Office was asking us for three years and six months, almost the maximum sentence,” said one of the defense lawyers, Fernando Oriente.
“What they have imposed on us, the two years, six months and one day, is the minimum that the law contemplates for cases in which there is dissemination on social networks, but the law does not distinguish whether there are threats, direct or indirect incitement, whether “There are possibilities of carrying them out or not, because it may be impossible.”
