El discurso de odio del art. 510.1.a) del Código Penal español:la ideología como un Caballo de Troya entre las circunstancias sospechosas de discriminación
- 1 Universidad de Valladolid, España
ISSN: 0718-3399
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 31
Type: Article
More publications in: Política Criminal: Revista Electrónica Semestral de Políticas Públicas en Materias Penales
Abstract
Article 510.1.a) of the Spanish Criminal Code was modified in 2015, creating a dangerous trend among the media and, even worse, among legal practitioners: any harmful or offensive expression or questionable humor turns into hate speech crime. In order to do this, the suspect circunmstance of ideological discrimination (included in art. 510 catalogue) is used as a real Trojan Horse. In this context, this paper aims to reveal the problems related to the legal delimitation and legal uncertainty arising from the reform. Also, this paper discusses the interpretative consequences by using hate crime category instead of anti-discrimination crime, as it has been doing in Spain since 1995.