This Barcelona audience lifted the penalty for harassing the illustrator and the author Paula BonetVictor GT, He said he was sentenced to a maximum of three years and three months in a psychiatric hospital for suffering from mental illness. The sentencing judge must repeat the sentence and also justify the valid mental illness defense.
The Court considers that the judicial decision regarding the defendant’s declaration of invulnerability was not sufficiently reasoned. “The implementation of a full defense of mental disorder requires a high degree of motivation, because it is a complex configuration situation, and being able to allow knowledge of the reasons that justify it, and of course probability, is always very demanding.” In this case, the judges emphasize that an argument should be developed to understand what kind of pathology the “erotomanic delusional disorder” is exposed to and what effect it has on him.
In her view, the “incidental relationship between the harassment” and the harassment suffered by Paula Bonet should be explained. In this way, the Court decides that the first-instance sentence “shows a lack of motivation, particularly in terms of not considering a substantial portion of the evidential material produced in the judicial process”. criteria adopted by the Barcelona Court, which accepted the appeal submitted by the prosecution.
Delusions and “parallel reality”
The criminal judge claimed that at the time, Víctor GT suffered from “a pathological disorder, a mental illness that had been diagnosed as erotomaniacal delusions and which completely dictated his will”. It is an unusual mental disorder based on the patient’s delusions of believing that another person is in love with them.
The young man harassed Paula Bonet for “experiencing a parallel reality that occupied her thought and behavior to the irrational limits,” according to this sentence, which made it impossible for her to “act according to a normal understanding.” The judge adds that Víctor GT’s illness has no cure and can be managed with appropriate treatment and medication. The prosecution and the special prosecution, led by the artist’s lawyer, Carla Vall, had requested the rejection of the psychiatric disorder thesis.
The sentence was deemed to prove the abuse that the accused exposed Paula Bonet for three years since July 2019, repeatedly coming to the doors of the Barcelona workshop where Paula Bonet worked, and persecuting her at presentations and public events. The judge also acknowledged both the emotional and labor mannerisms suffered by the victim “as a result of the pressure exerted by the continued presence of Víctor GT”, even forcing him to cancel his presence at public events.