A man has accepted this Wednesday to serve three months in prison for a hate crime for having insulted another in a traffic discussion because of his sexual condition when he saw that he had his nails painted black and a bracelet with the LGTBI flag. The defendant must also compensate the victim with 900 euros.
Likewise, he has agreed to pay a fine of 270 euros, take a course on equality and LGTBI rights and a disqualification for two years from the exercise of teaching during the trial held for conformity this Wednesday in the fifth section of the Court of Valencia and in the one that the Prosecutor's Office initially demanded two years in prison.
However, he will not go to prison if he does not commit a crime again in the next two years and pays the 900 euros civil liability for the moral damages caused.
The victim and lawyer, Isaac Guijarro, who has taken charge of his own defense, has been "very satisfied" since, after three years of struggle, he has managed to condemn verbal violence that the LGTBI collective has "normalized in their day to day", but that now the Justice "begins to put a stop to it".
For this reason, he has stressed this sentence for the insults and harassment received, -which is the "most daily" violence suffered by the group, he said- it is "a very important step" that should "serve as a warning to the aggressors that insulting no longer goes unpunished", and to the people affected so that they are encouraged to denounce "any type of aggression and not only the physical or the most serious". "We cannot normalize verbal violence, we deserve the same dignity as any other person," he stressed.
In this sense, he explained that, as a lawyer specializing in hate crimes, he felt the responsibility to do what he always advises his clients: "Report these events not only for themselves but for the entire group because, even if they are only insults It is an attack on your dignity and your moral integrity and they also intend to intimidate us". In fact, he has now admitted that he is afraid of going out with painted nails or a bracelet in case they insult him again. "It is necessary to fight", he has apostilled him.
The facts that the convicted person has recognized date back to February 11, 2020 when the car he was driving through Valencia got too close to the motorcycle on which the victim was riding and the victim reproached him for it. So, she called him a "faggot" and "cocksucker" when she saw that she was wearing painted nails and a bus bracelet.
