The leader of Hogar Social Madrid is acquitted of Islamophobia in the attack on the M-30 mosque

MADRID, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Provincial Court of Madrid has acquitted the leader of the neo-Nazi group Hogar Social Madrid (HSM), Melisa Domínguez, of the crime of incitement to hatred of which she had been accused for the attack she led against the M-30 mosque on 22 March 2016 after the jihadist attacks in Brussels.

This is stated in a sentence, to which you can access Europa Press, in which the magistrates exonerate Melisa and eleven other members of the group of crimes of incitement to hatred and public disorder. The Chamber also agrees to declare 50% of the procedural costs ex officio and the other 50% is imposed on the Spanish Immigration and Refugee Assistance Network.

The magistrates understand that it has not been proven that the intention of the defendants was to provoke some comments published on social networks of an Islamophobic, Hispanophobic, anti-fascist, anti-communist, anti-Catholic and anti-American nature.

Nor do they take it as proven that, as a result of the protest, "injury was caused to any person or damage to private or public property in the area, nor were public roads obstructed or facilities or buildings invaded."

During the trial, which was held last October, Melisa Domínguez, reaffirmed in the protest that night in front of the mosque for "financing terrorist jihadism", stating that she did not regret anything and that she would not change "not one comma" of the statement that he then spread through social networks.

He stated that he opted, without prior planning, for the Mosque of the M-30 because of the investigation that was underway in the National Court published by various media and given "the indications of financing of terrorism through a kind of revolutionary prayer tax".

The prosecutor then agreed to uphold his request for a three-year prison sentence for the HSM leader for linking Islam to terrorist jihadism in the protest she led on March 22, 2016.

The action of Hogar Social Madrid consisted of a concentration in the surroundings of the temple, hanging a banner on the M30 footbridge in which it was possible to read; "Today Brussels, tomorrow Madrid". On each side of the poster they placed two smoke canisters. After that, the images and a statement were disseminated through social networks, which generated, according to the prosecutor, hundreds of Islamophobic comments.

The prosecutor, who only accused the leader of the group, understands that as a whole the global protest action sustained "hate speech" that was taken to social networks and generated hundreds of discriminatory comments towards Islam and the people who profess this religion.

The private prosecution, on behalf of the Spanish Immigration and Refugee Aid Network, requested 4 years in prison for Melisa for incitement to hatred and public disorder. He asked the rest of the defendants for two years in prison for the rest of the defendants for public disorder, with the aggravating circumstance of incitement to hatred.

The defenses asked the court for the free acquittal of their sponsors in the future sentence to be handed down due to the lack of evidence of the crime of public disorder.

In her statement, Melisa reaffirmed before the court the action committed in the vicinity of the Islamic center for "financing terrorist jihadism." "I do not regret telling the truth," she told the media.

The concentration occurred after a terrorist attack in Brussels (Belgium), at the Zaventem international airport and at the Maelbeeck metro station, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.