In the last years in Spain it is a conflict about the black mood and jokes about the Spanish royal family. Some people think these jokes are only for make people to laugh although some people don’t like it but for others this jokes are like contempt of terrorism victims, insult them.
In the last years there are many cases of humorist or a person who put these jokes in the social networks and then they have to going to the courts for that. Some have been acquitted and other have been sentenced from 1 to 2 years in prison.
I’m going to tell you some cases about that:
The first is Guillermo Zapata ex councillor of culture of Madrid he was accuse of humiliating the victims of terrorism for this twit “They have had to close the cemetery of the girls of Alcàsser so that Irene Villa (1, see notes below) does not go for spare parts”. Then the case was archived three times it was declared innocent.
Other case is María Lluch Sancho: she was accused for humiliate the victims of ETA (2, see notes below) like Irene Villa, Miguel Angel Blanco (3, see notes below) and Carrero Blanco (4, see notes below). She put in her Twitter jokes like: “he flew, flew, Carrero flew and he came to the clouds. Oh, Carrero, the first Spanish astronaut”, “How rides in a horse Irene Villa? With Velcro”, “In what does Miguel Angel Blanco look like a dolphin? In the hole of the nape”. She was sentenced to one year of prison for humiliate the victims of ETA.
The last one and the most recent is the case of Cassandra Vera as well was accused for humiliate the victims of Terrorism to twits like: ”Film: a three meters above the sky; Production: ETA Films. Director: Argala; Protagonist: Carrero Blanco. Genre: Space race. ”Kissinger gave Correro Blanco a piece of the moon, ETA paid the trip to her ”,”ETA boost the politic against the official cars combined with a program space” and other ones. She was sentenced one years of prison and seven years of Absolute disqualification for humiliate the victims of terrorism. Lucia Carrero Blanco one of the granddaughters of Luis Carrero Blanco make’s a public cart in the newspaper “El Pais” when she said she wasn’t feel humiliate but she seemed like a bad joke, in this card also she said she wasn’t agreed that Cassandra should be judged on these facts.
These examples make me to ask the next questions: should humor have limits? And if it has, where is the limit between what is right and what is not?
NOTES:
(1) Irene Villa is a Spanish author and journalist who losing both legs in an ETA attack in Madrid at the age of 12.
(2) ETA is an illegal armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states with Basque population.
(3) Miguel Angel Blanco was a local Spanish politician for the Popular Party -PP, Who was kidnapped and later killed by two head shots by ETA.
(4) Luis Carrero Blanco was an admiral and leading Spanish politician in the extreme-right wing dictatorship He was assassinated by members of the group ETA, setting up the stage for the Spanish transition to democracy. Was killed with a bomb under the highway, after the explosion the car was on a ledge of a nearby building.