The Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced a member of España 2000 to two years and eight months in prison for a hate crime due to an article published on the far-right party's website in which homosexuals were accused of provoking " plague" of monkeypox.
In a ruling dated December 13, to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrates condemned an aggravated hate crime, imposing not only the aforementioned prison sentence, but also a fine of around 3,000 euros and special disqualification for the exercise the right to passive suffrage and to work in the educational, teaching, sports and free time fields.
The case is an article published in May 2022 on the España 2000 website and subsequently disseminated through social networks that the convicted person, David Carlos Usero Cavaller, did not write but was the administrator of the page, in charge of reviewing the published contents, according to he admitted.
Titled 'El Chueca Virus-22', the article "attributed to the LGTBI community the origin of the disease known as 'monkey pox', using offensive and humiliating expressions towards said group, aimed at spreading contempt, hostility and animosity towards the same".
"There is no doubt that the transmission is carried out not by being 'gay', but by carrying out perverse sodomitic practices in 'ambient' establishments (...), come on, a place of indiscriminate fornication among queers," the text read.
Along the same lines, he indicated that, "no matter how much the LGTBI culture is hegemonic at the moment, the truth is that the sexual behaviors of 'oil-wasters' are becoming, once again, a public health problem, and of fat people" .
And he warned that, "in the face of this new plague, the 'mass media' are very careful because, of course, if the queer collective, chosen by God as the possessor of all virtues and faculties, is in open quarrel with the tribe of females" , is responsible for 'monkeypox', this would undermine "all the brainwashing we have been subjected to to make us believe that perversion is 'normal'."
For the Valencia Court, which fully accepts the theses of the prosecutor Susana Gisbert, there is no doubt that it is an article "full of expressions that incite contempt, discrimination and hatred towards the aforementioned group, when the Constitution , in its article 14, prohibits discrimination for any reason, including that of a sexual nature.
The defense requested acquittal alleging that he was not the material author of the article, but the court rejected this argument not only because among his tasks was to review the content that was published on the web but because he himself admitted that it was not "an article." punctual". They had been "publishing this type of articles for about two years, which makes the fact even more deserving of criminal reproach," maintains the Provincial Court.
Usero Cavaller also argued that "the right to freedom of expression was simply being used," but the ruling emphasizes that, "apart from male homosexuals, derogatory references are also made to female homosexuals."
However, the court considers the prison sentence requested by the Public Ministry to be "according to the law", reasoning that "the fact that the article is uploaded on a website corresponding to a political group, specifically Spain 2000, gives it greater specific weight than if it came from a private citizen".
