The Prosecutor’s Office of the Provincial Court of Seville requests four years in prison for the rapper José Miguel Arenas Beltrán, Valtònyc, for calling to “kill a civil guard” at a concert held on March 31, 2018 in the Sevillian town of Marinaleda. The artist recently returned to Spain after having expired his sentence for threats, glorification of terrorism and insults to the Crown.
The document from the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that the Balearic rapper was convicted on February 21, 2017 (signed on February 15, 2018) as the author responsible for a crime of glorifying terrorism, humiliation of the victims, slander and insults to the Crown and threats against a certain group of people.
“Upset by such a sentence,” which implied his entry into prison, and considering that, “both the State Security Forces and Corps and the Administration of Justice are instruments of repression of a fascist state and, therefore, are not worthy of the least respect, nor the most basic of fundamental rights”, on March 31, 2018, in Marinaleda, he harangued the public with phrases such as “the judge who convicted me compares homosexuality with bestiality, he wants to prohibit the independence movement, “He wants to put us all in jail.”
“Let the National Court dissolve and hand over its weapons”
“It is good that we talk about whether Izquierda Unida, whether Podemos wins, about all those moves, but the important thing is that the National Court dissolves and hands over its weapons,” the same writing quotes.
“Kill a fucking civil guard tonight. Go to another town where there are civil guards and kill one, I’ll shit you”
In addition to stating that the National Court is “a fascist court that derives from the Public Order Court of the Franco state,” he told the public: “Kill a fucking civil guard tonight. Go to another town where there are civil guards and kill one, I’m shit, don’t ask yourselves what you can do for me, ask yourself what you can do for yourselves, if you were us, put a fucking bomb on the prosecutor once and for all.”
These harangues were recorded and published by a follower of the defendant, using a Twitter profile – now X -, which was echoed by several media outlets. The trial will be held starting at 10:00 a.m. this Tuesday in the seventh section of the Provincial Court of Seville, with the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC) as the accusation in this case together with the Prosecutor’s Office.
