Ex-councilor sentenced for inciting gender violence with cartoon
Former Mallorcan politician posted animation on his party’s website depicting 20 ways to kill a woman
A former police officer and ex-councilor from Mallorca, Joaquín Rabasco, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and has been given an 18,000-euro fine for inciting gender violence. Rabasco — whose secretary Claudia Falleman was also handed the same sentence — posted on the website of their local party an animation that demonstrated 20 different ways to end the life of a woman.
According to the judge who oversaw the case, the cartoons put on the internet by Rabasco in 2005, and which remained online for two months, showed “clearly contemptuous images of women,” with the intent of trying to demonstrate “the uselessness of women.”
The sentence, which runs to 100 pages, describes in detail the animation, in which a woman is shown dying in a number of ways, including while riding her bike, in the lava of a volcano, or chopped into pieces by an industrial fan.
“Voice of outsiders”
Rabasco governed in the local council of Llucmajor in an alliance between his group, ASI (Independent Social Action), and the conservative Popular Party. He billed himself as “the voice of the outsiders,” and campaigned against the normalization of the use of Catalan.
The former police officer and former politician, who is 60 years old, already has a criminal record after being sentenced to two years in jail for corruption.
Rabasco has already launched an appeal against his latest jail sentence.
