The First Section of the Provincial Court of Balearic Islands has summoned the president of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, to a preliminary hearing before the trial for an alleged hate crime, scheduled for next Wednesday, October 28.
This is a preliminary appearance aimed at preparing for a possible trial and is held before the preliminary hearing, in which the parties meet again just before the start of the oral trial.
In this type of proceedings, agreements of conformity are sometimes reached that avoid reaching the oral hearing. However, in this procedure, it is considered unlikely, given that both Le Senne and the Prosecutor's Office have maintained that no crime was committed, while the various popular accusations demand prison sentences — the highest being four years — and disqualification from holding public office.
If no agreement is finally reached, the Provincial Court must set a date for the celebration of the oral trial against the also leader of Vox in Balearic Islands.
The origin of the case dates back to February 2025, more than a year ago, when the investigating judge ordered the opening of an oral trial against Le Senne for allegedly breaking an image of the Roges del Molinar, victims of Francoism, during a plenary session of the Parliament in which the repeal of the democratic memory law was debated — for the first time, as there was subsequently a second —.
Subsequently, the politician's defense and the Prosecutor's Office filed appeals against some of the magistrate's resolutions, which left the procedure in suspense until the Provincial Court ruled.
The provincial court rejected these appeals in June of last year and, consequently, the resolution that obliged Le Senne to sit on the bench was confirmed and became final.