The first section of the Provincial Court of Madrid rejected the appeal presented by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, after an investigating court ruled out a crime in the conduct of the individual who, in September 2023, had reprimanded on a train.
In a resolution notified this Wednesday, it concludes that in this case, “we cannot maintain that the attitude of the accused is violent or intimidating“, nor that it is carried out to prevent Óscar Puente from traveling on the train”, that is to say that it excludes that the conditions of the crime of coercion denounced by the minister are met.
As he reasons, “if the train was stopped, it was not by the will of the accused, nor by his act”. but due to the actions of the complainant himself when, insistently, he says that he will not go up until the police arrive.
“The accused did not intend that (the minister) not participate in the parliamentary session nor that he could travel by train, but only wanted to make it a public recrimination for what he considered dishonorable, doing so in a rude and unpleasant manner,” the magistrates point out.
In this sense, they appreciate that “the real intention” of this individual, who responds to the initials LB, “was to annoy him, to provoke him and to achieve what he finally obtained, a certain media echo, but not to restrict one’s freedom or limit a right.” protected by the Penal Code“.
