a neighbor of Santa Cruz of Tenerifepoliceman of profession, has become one of the first people in Spain to serve a sentence for neighborhood harassmentafter the supreme court has dismissed his last appeal against the judgment of the Provincial Court.
The ruling sentenced him to six months in prisonto a fine of fifteen months and to the payment of 3,000 euros for moral damages.
In May, the courts launched the process of collecting the fine, agreeing that the will pay at the rate of 300 euros each month, as proposed by his defense. But the main extreme that must be fulfilled is to stop the continued harassment of the affected family.
This judicial process was opened after for years a family of Santa Cruz of Tenerife suffered from the behavior of his neighbor, the Santa Cruz policeman. It all started in 2015, when the already convicted began a series of actions aimed at “persistently and repeatedly monitor, intimidate and harass your neighbor”, who lives with five other people (his three children and his parents).
Everytime that the victim was taking the dog for a walkthe defendant pretended to be the encounter and invited her to go out together, but the woman’s refusal gave rise to the beginning of the harassment.
Equally, proceeded to constantly photograph the family and those who went to the houseas well as their vehicles.
He also stood in front of the complainant’s car to prevent her from leaving the garage, according to the proven facts of the sentence of the Criminal Court that sentenced him in the first instance.
At that time he took photos of the attendees and their cars, “with a defiant attitude.” On one occasion when some workers were placing a wooden pergola in the housethe defendant hit hard with a metal object and told his neighbor “that when he caught her alone he was going to cut her throat, making gestures with his hands that he was going to shoot her carrying.”
The woman got scared and ran to take refuge inside the house while the condemned man gave several blows and kicked the garage door of the house with such force that it left a mark.
It was also common for him to hit the adjoining wall violently and the insults were also constant.
The dictates of the successive courts have described his behavior as “harassment”, which also materialized in the presentation by the convicted person of complaints before the public administrations, the Local Police or the Agency of protection of data.
Before Urbanism, he filed continuous requests alleging that the works that were carried out in the complainant’s house were illegal, none of which prospered after verifying that they had the pertinent permits.
This man’s anger also arose when the rugs were shaken. On one occasion, the now condemned man “ended up mad, uttering curses and insults.” Once again, he filed a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency for the placement of video cameras that, according to him, were aimed at his home, which was ruled out by this body.
After all this suffering, the affected ended up suffering from chronic post-traumatic stress. The expert psychologist who examined her ruled out a possible mental psychotic disorder that had triggered these accusations and concluded that the neighbor’s behavior was the only continued stressful factor that triggered the sequelae she suffers from it.
