Since its entry into force, on October 7, thirteen men imprisoned for sexual crimes have been released prematurely, and nearly fifty condemned have seen their penalties reduced.
By Sandrine Morel (Madrid, correspondent)
a Alicante (Community of Valence), Thursday 1 er December, a man sentenced to the rape of a migrant in his car saw his imprisonment penalty automatically lowered from six to four year. His immediate release has been decreed. The same day, in Pontevedra, in Galicia, the conviction of another rapist was reduced from twelve to seven years in prison, also causing his instant liberation.
Since the entry into force in Spain of the new law “of full guarantee of sexual freedom”, on October 7, thirteen men imprisoned for sexual crimes were thus released prematurely, and nearly fifty condemned have Given their reduced sorrows. Day after day, the list is getting longer, and the controversy caused by gaps in the drafting of this plain law of the Spanish left government does not weaken.
In front of the Parliament, the deputies of the People’s Party (PP, right) demonstrated, Thursday, behind a sign: “No to the drop in sentences for sexual crimes. Rectification now”, and asked for the resignation of Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, at the origin of the law, and who is also the leader of the Radical Left Unidas Podemos party. Friday, November 25, International Day for the elimination of violence against women, part of the feminist demonstrators also asked for its resignation, criticizing “sloppy work”.
notion of explicit consent
Nicknamed the law of “only one yes is a yes”, the text was considered one of the major government reforms. Approved in order to better protect victims of sexual assault, he places the concept of explicit consent at the heart of the definition of sexual crimes and introduces into the penal code the fact that any non -consented sex is a rape. By the way, it strengthens the speech of women. Before this reform, when a sexual assault was not accompanied by other forms of violence or intimidation or that the victim, in shock, had not opposed physical resistance, the facts were classified as simple ” Sexual abuse “.
By unifying the crimes of abuse and sexual assault, the coalition government, formed by the Socialist Party and the Radical Left Unidas Podemos, wanted to respond to several issues. On the one hand, the fact that only 8 % of sexual assaults are the subject of a complaint, especially due to the fear of women not to be believed. On the other hand, the large number of cases classified without follow -up. He also wanted to react to the excitement provoked by the case of “La Meute”, the trigger for the Spanish metoo, when five young people were sentenced, in April 2018, for “sexual abuse” after a collective rape on the sidelines of the holidays de Pamplona – An accusation reclassified in sexual assault on appeal.
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