The supposed raffle was disseminated in a private WhatsApp group, without the authorization of the higher command
BARCELONA, 20 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Investigating Court 30 of Barcelona has agreed not to admit for processing the complaint filed by an infantry colonel of the Army in December last year after he proposed to raffle a prostitute among the military at the Bruc barracks in the city, ” since the facts denounced do not constitute a crime”.
In a car, consulted this Monday by Europa Press, it is detailed that on December 14 the Ministry of Defense was requested a report on the actions that had been carried out to clarify the draw proposal and the alleged perpetrators.
On February 6, it was agreed to transfer the report to the Public Prosecutor’s Office so that it would report whether the facts constituted a criminal offense and, on March 15, they presented an “exhaustive report in which it is concluded that the facts denounced do not fall within no criminal type”.
The order argues that “no crime is attributable to the Armed Forces as such, since the alleged raffle is disseminated in a private WhatsApp group, not through official channels, without authorization or consent from higher command.”
The document also ensures that no public money was used for such activities and that proof of this is that the colonel, once the facts were known, denounced them.
In addition, it maintains that there is no crime related to prostitution since no prostitute was hired, and the poster that advertised the raffle was made with “photographs of anonymous women, taken from the Internet, with pixelated faces and without providing any names or information. that would allow them to be identified.
In this sense, since there is no specific victim, the facts cannot be included in the crime of trafficking in human beings.
It also denies that there is a hate crime and discrimination, since the facts “cannot be framed within them, neither in their discriminatory aspect based on sex, nor directed at discrimination against the group of people engaged in prostitution.”
After taking a statement from 62 people, “it is unknown which specific people were affected by this conduct, nor the existence of any formal complaint to higher command by virtue of this inappropriate way of proceeding by their colleagues.”
“The comments on the draw were made by two specific members of the barracks, in an unofficial WhatsApp group made up of 62 members, of which only a minority responded to said offer, the majority of the barracks were oblivious to said mockery. “, they have assured.
Likewise, the court maintains that the raffle “did not respond to a reality”, since at no time is it known that favors were requested from any prostitute and, in fact, the winner of the raffle was finally awarded a Christmas basket.
According to the order, the authors of the raffle proposal themselves acknowledged their authorship before their commanders and “expressed their repentance.”
