The Penal Code similarly penalizes those who use counterfeit credit cards
MADRID, 11 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The crime of sedition that is going to be repealed by the Government and that it intends to replace with another of aggravated public disorder will be punished with sentences of between three and five years in prison, a punishment contemplated in the Penal Code in a similar way for people who set fires “mountains or forest masses” or for those that damage railways, according to data collected by Europa Press.
The organic law proposal made by PSOE and United We Can, in which the repeal of the crime of sedition is proposed, contemplates penalties for the authorities of three to five years in prison – compared to the 10 to 15 years that the Penal Code includes in force– and disqualification for six to eight years –compared to the 10 to 15 years established by the current law–.
In a range of one to five years in prison, the Penal Code punishes those who cause “damage that interrupts, hinders or destroys telecommunications lines or installations or postal correspondence.” Also to those who burn “mountains or forest masses”.
Those who cause damage to railway tracks or cause serious damage to railway traffic will also incur the same penalty. The same punishment is imposed “on those who damage the conduits or transmissions of water, gas or electricity for the populations, interrupting or seriously altering the supply or service.”
Those citizens who, “in time of war and with the aim of compromising the peace, security or independence of the State”, have “correspondence with an enemy country or one occupied by its troops when the Government I would have banned.”
In addition, the Penal Code punishes with two to five years in prison those who destroy, disable, falsify or open “without authorization the correspondence or documentation legally classified as reserved or secret, related to national defense and in their possession. for reasons of his position or destination”.
This sentence of two to five years also punishes those who accept a bribe as an official of the Court and in connection with their official duties.
This is a penalty identical to that imposed on citizens who use, to the detriment of another person, forged credit or debit cards or traveler’s checks, knowing that they have been previously forged.
With sentences of three to five years in prison, as the new crime that replaces sedition, people who use force or intimidation against politicians and judges or those who spread or reveal company secrets are punished.
Article 498 of the Penal Code also establishes a sentence of three to five years in prison for citizens who try to “prevent a member of the Congress of Deputies, the Senate or a Legislative Assembly of an Autonomous Community from attending their meetings.” Also to those who, using violence, seek to restrict “the free expression of their opinions or the casting of their vote.”
In the same sense, the law imposes prison sentences identical to those who use “force, violence or intimidation to prevent members” of the Government, the General Council of the Judiciary, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Government Council or the High Court of Justice of an Autonomous Community “attend their respective meetings”.
In the range of this sanction, the Criminal Code also punishes from three to five years in prison those who “without rising publicly, carrying weapons or other dangerous instruments, try to enter the headquarters of the Congress of Deputies, the Senate or the Legislative Assembly of an Autonomous Community, to submit petitions in person or collectively” to its members.
In another order of things, the Criminal Code contemplates equal penalties for those who disseminate, reveal or transfer company secrets that have previously been seized, whether data, written or electronic documents or computer media.
