Sentenced to 15 months in prison for shooting at a house in Viladecavalls shouting “Catalan sons of bitches!”

A court has sentenced 15 months in jail for a man, that he will not enter prison if he does not commit a crime again, that attacked with stones and shot five times with a blank pistol against a house of Viladecavalls (Vallès Occidental, Barcelona) because it wore a banner in favor of ‘yes’ to independence.

In sentencing, the criminal court number 3 of Terrassa includes the agreement of conformity reached between the Prosecutor’s Office and the accused, which will not enter prison because the pact contemplates that the jail sentence remains suspended if during a period of two years he does not commit a crime again.

The man agreed to be condemned for two crimes of threats after attacking on October 4, 2017 a house in Viladecavalls in which a flag with a “yes” to independence in the 1-O referendum, moved by the feeling of rejection of this political option.

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With the “clear purpose of causing fear of the inhabitants“of the domicile, where they were a woman and her son, according to the sentence, the man threw stones and shot with a semi-automatic firing pistol in five times towards the house, so that at least one of the cartridges reached inside the floor.

All this happened while the aggressor shouted expressions like “catalans sons of bitches“According to the sentence, which also condemns the accused to 15 months of disqualification.