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Vicente Belenguer , the Valencian professor tried for a hate crime for the denigrating comments that were made from his social networks after the death, in July 2016, of the bullfighter Víctor Barrio has been acquitted by the Criminal Court number 1 of Segovia.

Although "the judge considers that the widow and the parents were victims of a 'voracious episode of hate' and leaves the door open to claim by another means," as explained by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) In a press release, the acquittal is based on the fact that "hate crime is not applicable to this case because the Criminal Code does not include the world of bullfighting as a vulnerable group."

Thus, hate crime protects those who may suffer discrimination for "racist, anti-Semitic or other reasons related to ideology, religion or beliefs, family situation, the membership of their members to an ethnic group, race or nation, their national origin, their sex, sexual orientation or identity, for reasons of gender, illness or disability, " but does not include the world of bullfighting .

"Technically it is absolved not because it is understood that the victims have not suffered a voracious episode of hate", clarifies the judge, who believes that the comments made on the social networks of Belenguer "cannot be accepted under any reason in the title of freedom of expression, but they are the manifestation of a repulsive behavior , which seeks and increases the pain of some people who are completely sunk and destroyed by the recent loss of the life of a loved one. "

"An acquittal for the specific offense invoked by the accusations should not be understood , in any way, as a partial justification for such nefarious conduct . It is not possible to confuse freedom of expression with debauchery of expression, all democratic freedom is a responsible freedom where who he exercises is at the same time conscious that he must act with respect to the contrary with which he disagrees, "insists the judge in his resolution.

During the trial, in which the Prosecutor's Office requested four years in prison for a hate crime and the bullfighter's family requested five, Belenguer pleaded not guilty , denied being the author of the message in which Victor Barrio's death was celebrated and He also wished those "who fathered him and all his kindred."

The resolution, which has been known today, also considers that it has not been demonstrated that Belenguer was effectively the author of the comments and regrets that in the instructional phase the necessary procedures to find out will not be practiced.

"The fact that this Judge does not grant the family a criminal response in the sense concerned, does not mean in any way that there has been no serious damage , and that the Order in some other way, not by the legal precept invoked, you must repair the situation of gloating in the pain of others who unfortunately had to suffer the family of Don Victor, "encourages the sentence to the widow and the parents of the bullfighter to complain in another way.

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