They judge the owner of a bar who slapped a disabled person, telling him that it was a "game" in which he could win a ham

Next week, the Provincial Court of Pontevedra will host the trial against the owner of a bar in Marín who attacked a disabled client by inviting him to "play" a game in which both had to slap each other and in which, he told him, he could win a ham. The man's mockery was witnessed by the rest of the bar's customers without any of them reporting it and it was recorded on video.

The events occurred in December 2023, when the man was at the bar he runs in Marín and where the victim, with more than 70% intellectual disability, was a "regular customer."

With the intention of mocking the man, the defendant proposed "a game consisting of slapping each other," knowing that the victim "could not understand the scope of the game, nor its consequences."

"During the development of the game, the accused, with the intention of harming his physical integrity, dealt several blows to the victim, who, under the belief that it was a game and that he could get a ham if he was the winner, returned some of the blows received," the prosecutor's indictment states. The game was played in the presence of the clients who were there, and who, "in a joking tone, gave instructions to the injured party on how he should hit, or the body posture he should adopt to better accept the blow."

At one point, the accused slapped the victim hard, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. The accused, the Prosecutor's Office believes, "played this game with full advantage of the victim's vulnerable situation and with the intention of mocking him in front of the customers who were at that time inside the bar, generating a situation of humiliation and degradation."

These events were recorded by one of those present in the bar, without the permission of the injured party and without the identity of the person who filmed them being identified. The video was spread among part of the population of the town of Marín.

It was precisely a niece of the victim, who saw the video, who filed the complaint.