This only yes law is yes In October of last year, it brought with it the equating of sexual assault with some incidents that were previously classified as sexual abuse. ass groping– for the sake of protecting women. However Provincial Court Zaragosa He issued a penalty that could point to jurisprudence in the Spanish judicial system for convicting Mousa Tall to pay. A fine of 540 euros for a petty offense against moral integrity after he touched the ass of a young woman in a Tony Wilson bar in the Aragon capital. To be precise, these events date back to November 2022, just a few weeks after the norm reform, and therefore the Prosecutor’s Office classified the said ass touching as sexual assault.
Initially, the African-born convict was sentenced to one year in prison when the prosecutor realized it was a crime. sexual assault. The District Court of the Third Section considered that although the sentence handed down by a magistrate argued that it should be understood as an attack on the dignity of the sexually qualified person. this episode took place in a public institution full of people What’s this pub like in the Casco district of the Aragonese capital?
Mousa was defended by his lawyer Ana Calvera, He did not attend the hearing scheduled for 30 June at the Audiencia de Zaragoza and confessed the truth after being arrested because he said in front of the agents “you have to be sincere in life”. “I did it on purpose,” he admitted. You must also compensate the victim by paying 200 Euros.
Such incidents were already considered sexual abuse before the yes-only law was enacted. not in Aragon, but in Galicia, The Pontevedra 3rd High Criminal Court fined a man 3,200 euros for sexual abuse for touching the ass of a trainee civil guard at a bar in Pontevedra. In the sentence, the judge said, “He did not consent to the act of touching the hip, which the man knew, because it was done while the complainant was supine.”
Precisely for this reason Zaragosa, the victim stated that before touching Mousa’s ass, she noticed his presence behind her while she was dancing with her friends. “He was constantly dancing and rubbing against me and hitting me with a beer. There was a moment when he already picked me up and touched my ass with his hand. It wasn’t a touch, no. It was a grab.” declared the victim from Zaragoza in plenary session.
His story was corroborated by several friends of the victim, who told the agents how Mousa continued to scold and annoy them even when they decided to leave the bar. “I went without drinking and saw everything more clearly. The boy was behind him and see there is more space across the organization. I told him to keep quiet because he was ruining the party. He was trying to tell me a story when we came out… Still he said ‘man, it wasn’t that bad’””.