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"I no longer train at my club in Trasona because I am afraid to go. I went to the shooting gallery one day, I met him again and so the next two or three days. He is always there. They have returned his weapons license and like it. Restraining order has already ended, now I have to avoid him. In clubs, in competitions ... It is going back to the same thing that I already lived through and it shouldn't be like that. It especially shocks me that a person convicted of gender violence can recover so quickly his weapon ".

On February 11, the Criminal Court number 1 of Avilés ruled in favor of

, Olympic shooter, sixth in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Her former partner, Jorge Llames, also a shooter, also an Olympian, was convicted of a crime of harassment and a restraining order of 500 meters was imposed. "He watched over me if I was at home or not, he followed me with the car ... I had to change my routines and my phone number," Franquet told 'Marca' then, when he saw the end of an ordeal that lasted since it ended the relationship in January 2018 until he reported Llames on May 2 of that year. But in recent weeks the memory of that time has been rekindled.

The court ruling contained two details that today distress the shooter.

The first: that the restraining order was limited to three years from when the complaint was filed, which is why it ended on May 1 of this year.

And the second: that in bold and underlined it left "without effect the deprivation of the right to own arms immediately."

As shown on his Instagram, since June Llames has been shooting again and since September he has returned to competitions.

"They called me a liar"

"They branded me a liar, for having made a false complaint. I told what I was experiencing."

Last March

She explained what happened to the newspaper Marca and how the organizations that were supposed to ensure her safety did not protect her.

In the story, she assured that Llames controlled her before and after cutting off the relationship, that she even checked her cell phone and the security cameras at her home and that it was an incident in a hotel at the Korea World Cup that led her to denounce .

Also what the president of the Spanish Shooting Federation, Miguel Francés, commented to him when he did so: "He told me that if I could withdraw the complaint because shooting is a sport that is not well regarded for using weapons and that this would increase the bad image".

It was when the case was made public that the agency's request for forgiveness arrived.

Jorge Llames competing with Spain, Junta de Andalucía

"Now I feel a lot of things. What worries me the most is that he already has a weapon, but also that I can find him in competitions. For example, I think about where he will be when I shoot. He can be behind me without problem, nothing It prevents him from doing so. I feel that nobody supports me, that nobody protects me. Not the club, not the federations. It has even come to me that he

marksmen's

, "explains Franquet in conversation with

.

After the February ruling, the

and the Asturian Federation made a joint statement in which they apologized to the shooter "for the mistakes they might have made during the management of this complex problem", but now they say they can't help her.

As explained by the Spanish Federation to this newspaper, with the criminal punishment fulfilled, if they decided to withdraw the federative license from Llames, he could denounce the body for discrimination.

"The sentence is served, we cannot intercede," they point out and recall that the approval of the weapons license does not depend on them.

Without protection in justice

Indeed: it depends on the

. And, although a certificate of background on gender violence is required to obtain it, the court decision does not accept doubts: despite the conviction, Llames has the right to continue shooting. "Criminally, something like this is not foreseen because it is not an obvious case. When there are weapons involved, we usually speak of a crime of physical abuse or threats, in which the weapons license can be permanently withdrawn. But a The crime of harassment does not have that specific sentence ", analyzes the prosecutor

, specialized in cases of gender violence, who adds:" Surely this point deserves a review. "

"Sometimes I think about moving away, about leaving the shot. Seeing that I have so little support, I think: Why continue? Is it worth it?",

, whose latest results pointed to a return to the elite. Despite what she experienced in the past Olympic cycle, the shooter played the European Championship in Croatia in June with options to get a place for the

that in the end escaped her.

Born in Ascó, in Tarragona, and an agent of the National Police in Gijón, she is the best-ranked Spaniard in the world ranking of the 10-meter pistol and, at 41 years old -the sporting life of shooters is usually very long-, her The goal was to reach the

and look for his first medal.

In the Rio 2016 Games he was in the final, he came first, but in the last rounds he was left off the podium.

Shortly after, the anguish began that continues today.

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