The judge has again acquitted the man accused of harassing the artist and writer Paula Bonetconsidering that it has been proven that he is not criminally responsible because suffers from an “erotic-manic” disorderand orders it to continue psychiatric treatment for a maximum of four years.

In a sentence, to which EFE has had access, the head of criminal court number 10 of Barcelona acquits the defendant of the crimes of harassment, threats and violation of sentenceby applying the exemption of mental alteration, but prohibits him from coming closer than 500 meters from the victim for 10 years.

The new sentence imposes the harasser, Víctor GT, the same penalties as in the initial ruling: a maximum of three years and three months of hospitalization for the treatment of his disorder and up to one year of probation with the obligation to “undergo external treatment in a center”.

The judge has handed down this new sentence after the Barcelona Court annulled her first ruling, understanding that the defenses of mental disturbance that she had initially applied to her due to the “erotic-manic” disorder that she considered the stalker of Paula Bonet.

In her first sentence, of July 2020, the judge ordered psychiatric internment of the defendant, Víctor GT, after proving the harassment to which he subjected Paula Bonet, for three years from July 2019, repeatedly appearing at the doors of the Barcelona workshop where he worked and persecuting her in presentations and public events.

A picture that “totally affects your cognitive ability”

However, it also considered that the accused suffers from an “erotic-manic” disorder -what his defense, exercised by the lawyer Sergi Mercè, tried to prove through a psychological expert- and that this “completely conditioned his will“, so it must be controlled through treatment and medication.

In the new acquittal, the judge considers that “the clinical picture presented by the defendant totally affects your cognitive ability“and his volitional capacity” with Difficulty controlling your behavior“, after re-analyzing evidence from psychological reports.

As justification for the defense, he cites the forensic examiner’s statement at the oral hearing, which determined the existence of “ideation atypical or delusional” which, he argues, “is a personality disorder modality“, which is ratified in the report presented by the defense, which explains that the defendant suffered from a” delusional disorder of the erotic-manic type.

Víctor GT’s defense has celebrated the acquittal and has emphasized that “the sentence does not impose any penalty“, but that medical hospitalization is “a security measure whose objective is the treatment of the disorder”.