A Spanish judge sentenced a man who slapped his wife when she was talking to three young men to one year in prison. A fact that occurred during a live broadcast on the TikTok social network on January 28, a video that went viral.
In addition, he will not be able to come within 300 meters of her for three years, according to the sentence, to which EFE had access this Monday.
The judge considers him the author of a crime of ill-treatment in the field of violence against women. Likewise, it prevents him from communicating with her by any means or procedure, direct or indirect, for another three years. The same time during which he will be deprived of the right to possess and carry weapons.
The sentence states that the man “in a public and notorious manner, in front of thousands of people, assaulted his wife. Mainly with the intention of undermining her physical integrity. Also, to humiliate her in public. Without the record that it caused him injuries, although there was obvious and real abuse.
During the trial, both the man and the victim’s wife claimed their right not to testify. The woman, who was very nervous, only intervened to insist that her husband had never mistreated her nor did he force her to say this. In fact, the woman did not file a complaint.
The judge thus agreed to the request of the prosecutor, who mentioned in the trial two interventions by the Police that reflect a conflictive situation in the couple. In addition, they verify the “power relationship” that the man maintains over the victim.
The prosecutor also recalled that, in a later video on that same social network, the woman admitted that her husband previously beat her twice.
The magistrate clarifies that, in Spain, it is not necessary to report the victim in crimes of gender violence, and must be punished once the commission is known.
“The simple fact of the live broadcast of the slap is enough for the public powers to deploy the scope of protection of the victim, regardless of whether she recognizes herself as such,” he argues.
And it adds that, in crimes of violence against women, as in all those involving serious injuries, the consent of the person attacked is irrelevant and the punishment proceeds in all cases.
