The former Civil Guard agent, Francisco S., who had been accused of coercion and harassment directed at two citizens of Moroccan origin, was finally convicted of two crimes of coercion and acquitted of two counts of harassment that weighed on his back.
The convicted person will serve a total of one year in prison (six months for each crime of coercion) and will be disqualified from the right to passive suffrage and must compensate a young man of Moroccan origin with 3,000 euros for moral damages whom he grabbed by the neck believing he was the perpetrator of the beating that the son of his ex-partner had received.
The agent decided to take justice into his own hands when, in March 2005, he received a call from his ex-partner in which she told him that her son had been the victim of a beating. The former Civil Guard decided to go in search of the alleged perpetrator of the beating, a young man of Moroccan origin, whom he failed to locate, although he was at his home, where he intimidated his mother (one of the complainants) by taking out his regulation Civil Guard pistol and spinning it on one of his fingers. Later, the convicted man grabbed a young man of Moroccan origin by the neck in the middle of the street, mistaking him for the alleged aggressor of his ex-partner's son, even putting the barrel of his regulation pistol to his temple and reprimanding him for the alleged beating by mistake.
Both the woman and the young man who was grabbed by the neck in the middle of the street filed separate complaints that led to the arrest of the convicted man, who was currently receiving psychiatric treatment and had been removed from the Civil Guard.
