• Revocation. The Supreme Court warns that the pardon to María Salmerón cannot be a "safe conduct to commit a crime"
  • Background.The long process of María Salmerón

María Salmerón, the Sevillian woman who has been given a period of ten days by justice to enter prison after failing to comply with the visiting regime of her ex-husband, sentenced to 21 months in prison for ill-treatment , has appeared this Monday before the Means to criticize that "they put me in jail for protecting and respecting the will of my daughter".

The protagonist of this case learned days ago that the Criminal Court number 6 of Seville had requested the execution of a nine-month sentence of imprisonment for "a continued crime of serious disobedience to the authority" after her daughter - now older old- refused to comply with the visitation regime of his father -ARD-. However, this does not imply that the woman enters prison within ten days, since the clock will not start running until the process of being requested is completed, sources of her defense have explained.

María, who has been in a long court battle that has lasted for 20 years, had avoided prison in the past thanks to three pardons granted by the Government for the " exceptional circumstances " surrounding her case and in exchange for her carrying out works for the benefit of the community and will pay the required compensation.

Her present case seems to darken again, although her defense lawyer, José Estanislao López Gutiérrez, is optimistic about the options and affirms that "María has many tricks to play."

After dismissing the nullity incident presented because it considered that the daughter's testimony was not taken into account, an appeal is underway against this measure and another for reform to paralyze the execution of the sentence while the first one is resolved.

To this may be added in the future another legal dispute about the concurrence of the requirements for Maria to obtain parole , the condition of habitual inmate and the possibility of requesting a fourth pardon, the lawyer, who has explained to this newspaper, He recalled the resolutions of other courts that concluded that "if the girl does not want to see her father, the mother cannot be forced for it."

María, who appeared this morning at the gates of the Provincial Court of Seville, said that "protecting my daughter cannot be a crime" and reiterated that the only thing she did was "respect her will ". "When the events occurred, seven years ago, she was 13 years old and was not going to catch her by the hair and drag her to the meeting point."

"Where to go"

"The sentence is unfair," he told the media, a circumstance for which, if necessary, he will go to the Constitutional Court, Strasbourg and the United Nations, "where to go." "We have to take this issue out of Spain because here women have no justice," he denounced.

"It has become conviction with proof testifical of the person of the meeting point at which I was not because the girl did not want to go, and with the couple my husband. There are two weak evidence to put someone in prison ", has argued María, who defends that her case has produced" undue delays that in any other case would have caused a criminal to have had his sentence reduced. " "But I have not been discounted anything, despite the pardons there were," she has censured.

The breaches that motivated the latest conviction against María Salmerón occurred "between the end of 2011 and 2014", a year that, according to the defense attorney, must be "underlined and highlighted in bold" because it is key to discussing the decision of the judicial authority of oppose -a priori- the granting of parole. "The figure of the habitual defendant is blurred," argues the lawyer, who points out that in order to acquire this condition, three crimes of the same nature must have been perpetrated within a period of five years prior to the ruling.

López Gutiérrez has also shown her surprise that the different complaints filed against her defendant have not been grouped into a single case and thus prevent the litigation from being disseminated by different courts.

Finally, María Salmerón has made a harsh accusation, reproaching that "a perpetrator is being protected " by the judicial system and has demanded that politicians "begin to legislate in favor of battered women and victims of gender violence "

"In 2009 they took custody of my daughter and gave it to an abuser, and in 2020 they continue to visit abusers," he complained, to demand again that they "legislate now."

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