“Mammals, suckers and suckers, sinners from other religions obsessed with fornication. “I am PacoJavi I, prophet and high priest of the Colleague of the Infidels to Crom.” This is how a Navy sergeant who has just been definitively expelled from the Armed Forces by the Supreme Court has begun each of his videos for years. His “evaluations and criticisms,” say the judges regarding his allegations, had nothing to do with the religion he claimed to lead, but rather with “disdainful, insulting and offensive comments” against the King, the President of the Government or even the mayor of the city of Madrid.
The sanctioned person is a first sergeant stationed at the Las Palmas Arsenal and for years he has maintained several profiles open on various social networks such as Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. “Colegueo de los Infieles a Crom” is the name of his main channel, from which he broadcasts his political and social opinions, sometimes clearly identifying himself as a soldier and uploading photos and videos in uniform at his destination in the Canary Islands. In the fiction of Conan the Barbarian, Crom was one of the main gods.
The publications, messages and videos that caught the attention of the Spanish military authorities were several, but his sanctioning file especially highlights one from October 2019. When he personally wrote to Felipe VI criticizing that the Police had not broken up the Francoist concentrations of Mingorrubio on the day of the exhumation of the dictator’s body and asking the monarch for a law so that “those who committed crimes against humanity” during the dictatorship are left “out of the “torticero protection that they have obtained from the amnesty law.”
In other messages spread from the page “Colleague of the Infidels to Crom”, this Navy soldier also showed his “sympathy” towards the Catalan independence movement, described those convicted in the Altsasua case as “political prisoners”, and spoke out against the President of the Government and his ministers, from various political parties, the Prosecutor’s Office, the “National Court” and other public actors.
The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, signed her separation from service in March 2022 for several very serious offenses, among others for violating her duty of political neutrality and publicly issuing “manifestations contrary to the Crown and other institutions.” A decision that has just been confirmed by the fifth chamber of the Supreme Court, rejecting an appeal in which this sergeant explained that on Facebook he never spoke as a soldier, but as a “representative of a religion.”
In these publications, he said in his appeal, “I limit myself to expressing my opinion in relation to different topics in my capacity as Prophet and Supreme Sukinsin,” but never as a “natural person.” He also acknowledged having published a document called “Castings, teachings and revelations”, signed as “prophet of Crom” and with the message “Praise be Crom and his Whore Mother”. He also denounced “the survival of Francoist values within the armies” and warned that Spain “is facing the latent threat of a military uprising and points out the danger of the rise of supremacist and ultra-Catholic movements.”
The Supreme Court confirms his expulsion from the Armed Forces and recalls that he himself acknowledged being behind the Facebook page in question. In addition, the judges add, he used “typical naval slang” and identified himself several times as a Navy sergeant. “The conduct for which the appellant has been sanctioned in no way can be protected by his right to religious freedom,” adds the Supreme Court.
This soldier, says the Supreme Court, has expressed his opinion on public issues using “disdainful, insulting and offensive comments against certain constitutional bodies and civil authorities, to whom he freely and generally accuses the commission of arbitrary and even illegal acts.” Not only against Felipe VI or Pedro Sánchez but also charging against the mayor of Madrid for “illegally favoring casinos and gambling halls”, calling the Judiciary “corrupt” and stating that it is “dominated by acolytes of the extreme right.”
“These evaluations and criticisms, of marked political significance, have nothing to do with the exercise or practice of any religion,” the judges rule.
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