The Court of Barcelona annuls the sentence of the stalker of Paula Bonet

• Courts The judge sends the man convicted of harassing the artist Paula Bonet to the psychiatric hospital

to three years and three months of psychiatric hospitalization

for harassing the artist

The magistrates consider that there is an "irremediable deficit" in the sentence, such as "the absence or insufficiency of an entirely relevant test to know the reasons for the decision made" and for this reason they order that it be redrafted.

In this sense, the court is asked to argue the reasons why it applied the defense of mental disorder to Víctor GT despite condemning him for threats, harassment and breaking the prohibition to approach Bonet.

The sentence recalled that the harasser "lived a parallel reality that invaded his thinking and behavior, to irrational limits, making it impossible for him to act in accordance with a normal understanding" and that he suffered a mental disorder diagnosed as encapsulated erotomaniac delusion that "completely conditioned his will", although the disease can be controlled with treatment.

For the Court of Barcelona, ​​this decision has a lack of motivation since they are not exposed in the sense of exposing the reasons so that the complete defense can be applied to the convicted person, related to his mental health.

That is why it annuls the sentence and urges Criminal Court 10 of Barcelona to elaborate a new one with a "high degree of motivation" on this disorder that affected the defense.

In addition, of the internment for more than three years, the court sentenced Víctor to more than a year of probation, external psychiatric treatment and 10 years without approaching the victim, who will have to compensate with about 4,000 euros.

In the trial, the Prosecutor requested three years in prison for the convicted person while the private prosecution, which represents the artist, claimed four. The sentence indicates that since July 2019 the convicted person has been interested in the artist and, "without having maintained any type of of a previous relationship, she began to impose her presence and seek her proximity by going to the place where she did her work as a writer, painter and illustrator with the intention of seeing her and learning about her".

Around half past five in the afternoon on a day at the end of July, the condemned man went to the workshop when she was receiving some students, introduced himself with her name and verbalized his interest in meeting her.

Given this, Bonet reacted "cautiously", since she was not aware that he was a student of hers.

She asked him to leave her, but the defendant reacted by hugging her suddenly.

Bonet took the opportunity to move him from her until she managed to get him to leave the premises.

From then on, the harassment was repeated, whether Bonet was there or not.

In addition, the convicted man followed her at public events in which the illustrator participated and even sent her threatening emails and insisted that she was going to rape her.

He also left her gifts and threatening notes in her workshop, signed "V" for rapist.

In January 2020, she tried to sneak into her workshop when the artist was with her students, for which she had to notify the Mossos d'Esquadra.

Months later, he wrote a message on social networks in which he said: "You better not set foot in my city again, because if I come across you I will strangle you and dismember you" and added: "I will leave my eyes for the end and I will keep my eyes nipples in a lunch box for my own enjoyment."

"If you prefer, you can beg for mercy from that rapist, stalker and psychopath, you will only be raped after suffering an eternal beating," she concluded.

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