ALMERIA, Oct. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A military court has sentenced a legionnaire stationed at the Viator base (Almería) to six months in prison for harassing a fellow soldier after she ended a four-year relationship.
The defendant repeatedly persecuted and threatened the victim for three months despite being reprimanded by a superior who asked him “to stop bothering her”, since “she felt scared” and warned her that, “if she went back to to do it”, he would report to the Army Personnel Command.
The legionnaire, who acknowledged the facts in court, agreed with the sentence requested by the military legal prosecutor of six months in prison as the author of a consummated crime against the exercise of fundamental rights and public freedoms by the military.
Specifically, in his modality of “insulting, threatening and seriously attacking the personal dignity of another soldier”, for which, in addition, he has been suspended from employment and must compensate his former sentimental partner with 1,200 euros for moral damages .
According to the sentence, consulted by Europa Press, the convicted person, assigned to the ‘Don Juan de Austria’ Tercio of the Legion, in Viator (Almería), maintained a sentimental relationship with the victim “in a non-continuous way, for approximately four years”.
The sentimental relationship was broken “apparently by the will of the legionnaire lady and as a result of the fight that took place between a soldier and the accused”, who “did not accept the rupture” and “started since then a harassing conduct” that he maintained towards her former partner for three months.
The court specifies that, “taking advantage of a joint trip by train”, he reproached him for not being able to make the decision to leave him because of a fight “which, according to his words”, would have been caused by the other soldier and told him “in a threatening tone and without never let him leave the seat he was occupying that he was going to regret all this”, that “he was going to pay for everything” he “did”, or that he had “fucked up his life” and did not want to “hurt” him .
It adds that a day later, the victim reported this incident to a chief, to whom she told “she felt scared”, so the superior “decided to talk to the legionnaire and asked him to stop bothering her, since if he came back to do so would report to the Army Personnel Command”.
Despite the fact that he replied “that he would follow her advice and let the thing be”, the final sentence states that another day “he waited for the end of activities training” to order him “to reconsider his decision, insisting -he remarks- – incisively and chasing her until she reached the female module”.
He also relates that a few days after this last episode, he had a conversation with his ex-partner through the WhatsApp application in which he uttered expressions such as “you’re a bitch, now you’re going to see what it’s like you”, “ale, fuck you well bitch” and also published three states with phrases like “you can change your destination bitch”, “you’re going to cry and it’s not going to be little”, or “say goodbye to everything you see”.
In these communications, according to the ruling, she added an emoticon of a fox, “confirming in the records that she has also been addressed verbally with the expressions “you are the whore of the legion”, “you are a bitch” or “you You will remember all of this.”
The court underlines that, likewise, he was “waiting in his vehicle for the arrival” of the victim at the base’s troop residence “for the purpose of requesting explanations from his companion” and “behaving aggressively and with total contempt towards his person” by assuring textually “you are going to pay for the damage you have done to me and are doing to me; if necessary I will kill him”.
