The Cordoba Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened its doors investigation procedure for an alleged hate crime included in a complaint that reflects comments made on a social network against the Catalans during the match played between the Cordoba CF and Barcelona B last June at the Arcángel stadium.
Specifically, the phrase posted on a social network included “I shit on the p… p… of all Catalans,” according to the complaint, which was submitted by email to the Hate Room Prosecutor’s Office who was in turn transferred to the Cordoba prosecutor’s office, knowing that the events take place within the framework of the football match between the Cordoba CF and Barcelona B.
In the first match, the green and white team drew in their visit to Barcelona B in promotion dam go in the second division, while in the return, Córdoba CF achieved promotion.
The Cordoba prosecutor’s office must now decide whether to close the case or launch a full investigation. prosecute the perpetrators of these comments, but you must first analyze whether this comment itself could be classified as a hate crime as such, since insults are decriminalized in the Criminal Code.
The fact is that the current CP law, in its article 22.4, stipulates that hate crimes will be considered “for racist reasonsanti-Semitic or any other type of discrimination referring to the victim’s ideology, religion or beliefs, ethnic origin, race or nation to which he or she belongs, gender, age, sexual orientation or identity or if there are grounds for discrimination due to aporophobia or social exclusionthe illness from which they suffer or their disability, regardless of whether these conditions or circumstances actually occur in the person on whom the conduct is attributed.
