The National Court opposes the granting of pardon to rapper Pablo Rivadulla Duró, better known as Pablo Hasél, currently in prison for exalting terrorism and insults to the Crown. The magistrates of the First Section of the Criminal Chamber, in line with the Prosecutor’s Office, refuse to apply this grace measure to the Catalan singer, whom they describe as a “repeat offender” marked by an “antisocial attitude” that accumulates, at least, three other court rulings against him.
Through a resolution issued this October 14, to which EL PAÍS had access, the court reviews the rapper’s history and emphasizes that he does not meet the conditions provided in the Law to apply a pardon. The regulations provide that “repeat offenders” can only be granted if “sufficient reasons of justice, equity or public convenience concur”. And, adds the National Court, “these exceptional reasons do not result from the pardon file” for Hasél.
The shortlist of magistrates —formed by Concepción Espejel, Francisco Javier Vieira and María Riera— influence the rapper’s “antisocial attitude”. Not only because of the “various sentences” that have been imposed on him, but also because of “his own way of dealing with” his stay in the Lleida prison. Hasél has refused in prison to undergo an individualized treatment program: “[Esta conducta] it is indicative of the absence of reasons that justify a favorable proposal from this court for the granting of the requested pardon ”.
The rapper has reiterated on his website and social networks his refusal to undergo treatment. “The prison psychologist, blackmailing me with my long stay in prison if I don’t accept, wanted me to strip me of my principles by making this insulting program based on ‘checking my expressions and emotions’ to ’empathize with the victims’ of the armed self-defense. A badly covered repentance that from the first day I made it very clear that I will never assume, “he said.
Regarding the possibility of requesting the measure of grace, Hasél had also already addressed a few words to his followers: “I would never ask for it because, if I did, it would imply repentance.” In this sense, the National Court reflects in its resolution that, after receiving the instance of the Catalan Academy of Music, the judicial body asked the convicted person to express himself in this regard and this, through a brief presented this October 7, He assured that “he does not oppose any objection to the processing of the pardon nor does he oppose the benefits that may correspond in the event of a favorable resolution.”
Now, after the magistrates and the Prosecutor’s Office have pronounced, the ball remains in the hands of the Ministry of Justice, which must submit its report to the Council of Ministers for a decision. The Catalan rapper entered prison last February after the Mossos d’Esquadra detained him at the University of Lleida, where he had barricaded himself after disobeying the order issued by the National Court to voluntarily appear in a penitentiary to serve a Nine-month prison sentence for exalting terrorism – he praised ETA and GRAPO in his Twitter messages – and insulting the Crown. In March, the judicial body added to that penalty another year and four months of imprisonment after it was declared insolvent to pay the fine of almost 30,000 euros imposed in the sentence.
The musician accumulates other sentences. Among them, one of two and a half years for threatening a witness in a trial against a Lleida urban guard, which the Provincial Court confirmed in February this year. Another sentence handed down in 2014 by the National High Court for praising the terrorism of ETA, the Grapo, Terra Lliure or Al Qaeda in their songs, which was suspended in its day. And a criminal court also sentenced him to six months in prison for a crime of injury for attacking, in 2016, a TV-3 journalist at a press conference in the rector of the University of Lleida, occupied by students.
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