The dean judge of Bilbao believes “alarming” the growth of complaints for punctures at parties in the Basque Country
The dean judge of Bilbao, Aner Uriarte, believes “Alarming” the growth of complaints for pricks to women at parties in the Basque Country during this summer, when, in addition, “there are still many to celebrate”, including those of the Biscayan capital. “It is not good news,” he said in statements to Europa Press.
Up to now, they have reported to the Ertzaintza around a fortnight of cases, in which young people have received punctures, although, in the subsequent medical evaluation, no inoculation of chemical substances has been detected.
The Ertzaintza, which is keeping the investigations open in this regard, with no arrests to date, considers in its reports that These are hate crime aggravated bodily injury offenses.since the victims belong “to a threatened group”, such as women, among whom “fear” has been generated.
In any case, the dean judge of Bilbao has recalled that it will be the judges who will finally carry out the accusation when the cases are prosecuted, because the police forces “technically neither accuse nor impute”, but rather they make a crime reference rating on their reportswhich is not binding.
For Aner Uriarte, the typification of these facts ands “a very complicated question”, for what he considers “very risky” at this time, he offers a legal qualification in this regard. As he has pointed out, it will be the judges who take charge of these cases who will analyze the alleged crimes one by one based on the circumstances in which they have occurred to determine the possible criminal type that has occurred.
Catalan nightlife calls the “alarm” “excessive”
In another order of things, the general secretary of the Catalan nightlife employer association FECASARM, Joaquim Boadas, has argued that “This phenomenon of punctures” is creating “a totally disproportionate social alarm”since there are only twenty cases reported in Catalonia.
Through a video recorded statement, Boadas has demanded those responsible for the punctures to “stop creating this alarm and of restricting the freedom of women”, although he stressed that they are “isolated cases” that “will disappear with the passage of time”.
Boadas has highlighted that many of the punctures have occurred very close geographically, which “could be due to the action of a person”, and has placed these puncture practices especially in the environment of “illegal nightlife”.
“Partying in legal party venues is totally safe“, Boadas has highlighted, who has assured that this practice “is not going to generate” the panic that is intended, and has defended that if his image is publicly disseminated, the authors will be prohibited from entering by right of admission.
On this issue, he has valued “positively” that there has been identified the alleged author of the puncture of La RĂ pita (Tarragona), and has assured that “if he is identified and his photograph is disseminated” by the media, he will be prohibited from entering any disco in Catalonia, “and if it can be”, at the level of Spain.
“We will take into account that this person is an aggressive person, who causes violent acts against people who are inside the premises, and by right of admission they cannot enter,” Boadas defended, relying on Catalan regulations, whose action he hopes it will serve as a “deterrent measure”.