national audience acquitted young british The person who was tried for sending it last Monday July 3, 2022, before boarding the plane Flight from London to Menorcaa message to one person private group of friends where did he threaten by flying the plane they will board. Message sent via social network snapchatHe was captured by British security services, forcing one man to mobilize. Spanish Army Eurofighter to accompany the plane.
In his nine-page sentence compiled by Europa Press, the judge said: Central Criminal Court, José Manuel Fernández-Prieto, Note that due to these events, the National Court Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney General’s Office filed a request for the young man. 19 years old, Indian citizen and holds a British passportnice sentence 22,500 euros for disturbing public orderand also civil liability compensation 94,782 euros in favor of the Ministry of Defense for the cost of mobilizing military aircraft.
In the decision, the judge explained that the defendant sent a message to a private Snapchat group with six friends he was traveling with, and that this message included a photo of himself and a text in English: “On my way to fly the plane (I am a member of the Taliban).”
“That message unknown reasonscaptured by security mechanisms England “While the aircraft was flying over French airspace,” the judge recalled, this led to notification being made to the Spanish authorities, who deployed a Eurofighter aircraft escorting the commercial flight. minorca.
In addition, after landing, the aircraft and its passengers are isolated until the alleged threat is confirmed with a negative outcome, “Well, no explosives were found.” nor is there any object or device that would suggest this is a real threat”.
There was no intention to move the aircraft
From the judge’s point of view, when the events and accusations and the crime attributed to him are analyzed, his actions cannot be considered to constitute a crime. He states the following regarding the defendant’s action: “It turned out that there was no intention to provoke the mobilization of army aircraft, and even this was not even remotely inferrednor any other police, aid or rescue service”, as required by the statutory provision of Article 561 of the Criminal Code in its current language.
“The message stated above cannot be ignored” failure to send the photograph to any official authority or to provide any publicity will inevitably lead to action by the relevant police, aid or rescue services; If the goal is provocation, this turns out to be the most appropriate. mobilization of these services,” he states.
And on the contrary, he adds, the message is carried “in a completely private environment between the defendant and his friends with whom he was flying, Through a private group to which only they had access, the defendant could not even remotely assume (as he made clear at the hearing) that his prank on his friends could be intercepted or detected by the British services or third parties. parties other than their friends receiving the message”.
The judge stated that it was not known how the British services became aware of the photo and the message sent. “since it is not a matter of evidence in the trial”, but insists that no intention was attributed to the defendant to mobilize the stated services.
Regarding the implication that the person who disclosed the message was probably one of the friends, the judge stated that “in addition to the absence of any evidence, in any case, it would constitute a crime if the disclosure was made public by a third party from the private group.” “This will be committed to the third party and will never be the defendant.”