No matter how much it can hurt
The Constitutional Court has denied the appeal filed six years ago by two young fromGirona convicted burned pictures of the kings of Spain in 2007. Jaume Roure and Enric Stern was accused of a crime of insults to Crown and the Spanish National Court imposed a fine of 2,730 euros. The incident took place during a rally royalist held in Red Square in the capital of Girona.
With this verdict the high court has decided today that the two youths were not violating any fundamental right time to impose sanctions and, therefore, the conviction by the Audiencia Nacional 's 2008 is correct.
In this regard, however, the defense lawyer Benedict Salellas, Digital Nation explained that the sentence has a dissent signed by four of the twelve judges, "who believe that the sentence was violating freedom of expression" Oak and Stern. This is, in fact, what the lawyer and the accused have always maintained.
Salellas believes that this resolution has come at a time of "questioning the monarchy," to make clear that freedom of expression is "very close" when it is related to this institution. "The ruling sets a precedent contrary to the rights and political freedoms," said the lawyer, "because they understand freedom of speech as something very small, and this is not characteristic of a democratic state."
For these events, which took place in 2007, came to the prosecutor requested a sentence of one year and three months in prison, substituted by a fine of 5,400 euros for each of the defendants. The National Court judge, Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia, it changed them to reduce the amount payable to 2,730 euros. The defendants now appeal the case to bet on European Court of Human Rights.