The Court of Instruction number 4 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has sentenced a patient to pay a fine for a minor offense of threats against a doctor.
The verbal assault took place on May 17 at a health center in Gran Canaria, after the doctor told the man and his wife that they should wear a mask to enter. "The aggressor approached the colleague when he was returning to his job, pointed at him and threatened him," explain from the College of Physicians, which has made public the content of the sentence.
The ruling considers the facts proven and concludes that they constitute a minor offense of threats, since the accused "showed intention to attack the physical integrity of the collegiate without more apparent reason than the fact of considering him responsible for not being able to access the health center without a mask."
"All aggressions, physical or verbal, in the sanitary scope must be reported, since it is the only way for Justice to act and not be repeated", says the general secretary of the College of Physicians of Las Palmas, Marta León.
In addition, she recalls that since 2015 the modification of article 550.1 of the Penal Code has been applied, which considers an aggression against a doctor, physical or verbal, an attack on authority and may entail a prison sentence.
The College of Physicians of Las Palmas has again condemned "any type of physical or verbal aggression against doctors in the exercise of their profession" and has made a call to social awareness of citizens to "reject this type of violent behavior towards a group whose work is fundamental".
