A 45-year-old man has just been convicted of harassing his ex-partner for weeks, making numerous attempts to contact her. Justice notably held against this Turkish national that he had anonymously called his victim, a 48-year-old woman from Saint Gall, 154 times in the weeks following their separation. The man also repeatedly used a Facebook account that was not in his name to contact her.
But the harassment was not confined to social networks. Indeed, according to the criminal order (OP), between August 11 and September 13, 2023, the defendant had also sent more than a hundred messages to his ex via… Twint. The opportunity for the harasser to make himself heard, or rather read, without his victim being able to do anything about it. The mobile payment application does not allow other users to be blocked, as another harasser in the canton of St. Gallen had already noted.
So many elements which weighed against the forty-year-old. “By his actions, the defendant misused a telecommunications system to disturb and harass,” the OP indicates. Furthermore, the latter had, in his messages on Twint, copiously and frequently insulted the Saint-Galloise, damaging her honor. For all these reasons, he was sentenced to a suspended financial penalty of 20 days fine of 50 francs. He will also have to pay a fine of 200 francs and procedural costs, around 670 francs. The OP has not yet entered into force, so an appeal is still possible.
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