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Echenique, Acquitted of Hate Crime After His Message on Priests and Immigration

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The Provincial High Court of Madrid has acquitted the former deputy of Podemos Pablo Echenique of the crime of hatred for which he had been charged following a message published in X which stated that "statistically it is much more likely that a priest will commit a crime of sexual assault against minors that offends a migrant person." The sentence rejects the request for conviction made by the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers, which requ…

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"They are inaccurate and improper expressions of someone with political responsibility or media outreach," the sentence adds.

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The Provincial High Court of Madrid has acquitted the former leader of Podemos Pablo Echenique of an alleged hate crime by publishing a tweet in which he spoke of "deporting priests" who had sexually abused minors.In the judgment, the court notes that Echenique's message, published in 2024, was "uncertainty" and "unproprietary" of a person of public relevance, but "does not fit" in the cases that punish incitement to hatred, discrimination, host…

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The Provincial High Court of Madrid has acquitted the former deputy of Podemos Pablo Echenique of the crime of hatred for which he had been charged following a message published in X which stated that "statistically it is much more likely that a priest will commit a crime of sexual assault against minors that offends a migrant person." The sentence rejects the request for conviction made by the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers, which requ…

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The Provincial Court of Madrid has acquitted the former leader of Podemos Pablo Echenique of the crime of hatred for which he had been accused by Christian Lawyers for a message...

·Madrid, Spain
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The judges consider that their message was an ironic response to statements about immigration and conclude that there was no intention to incite hatred or that priests were a vulnerable group Echenique argues that the tweet about deporting pederast priests for which Christian Lawyers asks him to jail was an “irony” The Provincial High Court of Madrid has acquitted former MP of Podemos Pablo Echenique by not seeing hate crime in the tweet about “…

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The former deputy of Podemos Pablo Echenique has been acquitted of the crime of hatred for publishing a message against pederasty in the clergy, in response to controversial statements by the archbishop of Oviedo against the regularization of immigrants. The ruling of the Provincial High Court of Madrid has rejected the petition of the ultra-Catholic Christian Lawyers association for a year's imprisonment, fine and disqualification against the p…

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EL ESPAÑOL broke the news in Spain on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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