Mallorca: Le Senne faces trial over torn Civil War photos

Mallorca: Gabriel Le Senne, president of the Balearic parliament, faces a hate-crime trial over photographs he tore up of Aurora Picornell and other women murdered in the Civil War. The five-day trial is set for 25 to 29 October 2027 in Palma, Mallorca. Le Senne tore the photographs during a parliamentary sitting in June 2024.

The Provincial Court set the dates after a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, 28 October 2026. It has given the parties five days to say which parts of the parliamentary sittings on 18 June and 15 October 2024 they want shown at trial. The court also rejected a request to hear a historian as an expert witness, saying Picornell’s significance was not in dispute.

One of the lawyers bringing the case has five days to submit documents about damage to a bust of Picornell in Palma’s Molinar neighbourhood. She argues that the damage followed the tearing of the photographs; a link has not been established.

Prosecutors are not bringing charges because they do not consider Le Senne’s actions a criminal offence. Other parties are pressing ahead. His lawyer disputes whether the Association for the Recovery of Mallorca’s Historical Memory can bring a claim and has raised the possibility that Le Senne’s parliamentary position protects him from prosecution. Those arguments remain unresolved ahead of the trial.

Topics: Court cases · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com