The Superior Court of Justice of Navarra (TSJN) has reduced by one year – from 15 to 14 years – the prison sentence that the Supreme Court had imposed on Ángel Boza, one of the five convicted of the 2016 Sanfermines group rape. in application of Organic Law 10/2022, on the Comprehensive Guarantee of Sexual Freedom, known as the 'only yes means yes' law.
The argument of the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJN maintains that the sentence should be reduced because the Supreme Court itself indicated in its ruling that it imposed a sentence of 15 years, “close” or “close” to the legal minimum, minimums that the The aforementioned law was “significantly” reduced.
At the end of 2022, Boza had requested the reduction of his prison sentence from 15 to 13 years and 9 months, after the law on Sexual Freedom Guarantees came into force. The other four convicted have other sentences for other cases of abuse that make it impossible to benefit from the reduction.
The resolution can be appealed before the TS.
