The head of the Court of Instruction 1 of Palma, Juan Manuel Sobrino, has ordered to continue the investigationagainst the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox)The president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), when he saw signs of a possible hate crime when he tore in a plenary session a photo of Republican militants assassinated in 1937.
The investigating judge decrees in an order the continuation of the proceedings against the politician of Vox to understand “that there are sufficient indications to consider that the investigated facts may constitute a crime (…) of hatred“. The Prosecutor’s Office requested the filing of the case against the president of the Parliament, who on July 18 last year, during a debate on the repeal of the Law of Democratic Memory Balearic, broke a photo in which appeared the communist militants Aurora Picornell and Antònia and Maria Pascual, killed in Mallorca during the Civil War. The resolution is not final and against it, within three days, an appeal for reform can be made to the same court. The judge gives a period of ten days to the parties to formulate the indictment, requesting the opening of the oral trial.
