Spain, State Attorney General's Office (Fiscalía General del Estado) (2019), Circular 7/2019, on guidelines for the interpretation of hate crimes under article 510 of the Criminal Code (Circular 7/2019, sobre pautas para interpretar los delitos de odio

Country

Spain

Title

Spain, State Attorney General's Office (Fiscalía General del Estado) (2019), Circular 7/2019, on guidelines for the interpretation of hate crimes under article 510 of the Criminal Code (Circular 7/2019, sobre pautas para interpretar los delitos de odio tipificados en el art. 510 CP), Madrid, Ministry of Justice

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Year

2019

Type of publication

Handbook

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Public authority

Institution

Spain, State Official Bulletin - Ministry of the Presidency, Court Relations and Equality | Boletín Oficial del Estado - Ministerio de la Presidencia, Relaciones con las Cortes e Igualdad (MPR)

Main Thematic Focus

Hate crime Incitement to hatred or violence

Target Population

General population

Key findings

The Information Circular pursues the setting of interpretative guidelines for the various criminal figures encompassed in the Article 510 of the Penal Code (PC) following the reform carried out by Organic Law 1/2015 of 30 March, which entered into force on July 2015. It has not involved the inclusion of a single category of hate crimes, and expressions of it may be found disseminated throughout the PC. It entails interpretative difficulties with respect to other criminal modalities related to this matter. There is a doctrinal and jurisprudential dispute. The offences contained in Article 510 PC still present diffuse contours that make them difficult to detect and which, perhaps, do not allow the behaviors presented by the “exclusionary intolerance”, as stated by the Constitutional Court Ruling No 177/2015 of 22 July.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

other: Information Circular

Sample details and representativeness

N/A

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