VÃctor Galindo, Paula Bonet’s stalker, will not go to prison for it. The sentence made public yesterday, to which La Vanguardia has had access, considers that the man who persecuted her to the point that he had to change his address, has a psychological disorder (“an erotomaniac delirium”), who needs medical attention and therefore hospital admission. The ruling does establish the precautionary measures of distance to preserve the safety and integrity of the artist, since it prohibits her from approaching less than 500 meters for ten years.
The ruling half satisfies the affected party, because it does establish a protection order but insists on the psychological disorder that Bonet and his defense consider “non-existent”.
Carla Vall, the lawyer for the Valencian illustrator, launched a tweet yesterday in which she analyzed the ruling by magistrate Tatiana Turiella: “We have been notified of the sentence for harassment against Paula Bonet. Once again, it takes into account the mental disorder that we consider to be non-existent. The purest machismo cannot be given the form of pathology.†Vall announced that “we will appeal, again, the judicial decision.”
This new sentence comes after the Court of Barcelona annulled its first ruling, understanding that the defenses of mental alteration that it had initially applied to him due to the disorder that he considered that Paula Bonet’s stalker suffers were not duly argued.
Galindo began harassing the writer in 2019, when he showed up at her workshop posing as a student. “I opened the door for him, locked it, told him to wait in the entrance area and went to finish preparing the class. He ignored it and got into the area where I was, then I discovered that he was not a student. He verbalized the desire that he had to be with me and at that moment he decided that he had to hold me. I got away from him, taking advantage of the proximity of the class and the imminent arrival of studentsâ€, recounted Bonet in an interview with La Vanguardia. The persecution to which she was subjected forced her to change her life and receive psychological treatment, in addition to changing all of her professional habits.
