The Spanish Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the fine of 1,080 euros imposed on a naturist activist who showed up naked at a police station and refused to dress, despite repeated requests from the police.
This man had been fined for “disobedience” after having presented himself on August 20, 2020 “completely naked” in a police office in Valencia (east), where he wanted to “file a complaint”, recalls the Supreme Court in a published press release Friday.
The police then asked him to get dressed because “he had clothes in his backpack” and was “disrupting the normal functioning of the office”. But he had “clearly and categorically refused” to dress, arguing that he had the right to be naked, she adds.
This activist then appealed the fine, but the Supreme Court rejected his appeal in a ruling dated October 3. The orders given by the police “were necessary to maintain public order and peaceful coexistence”, she justifies.
The ruling only gives the initials of the person in question, but Spanish media identified him as Alejandro Colomar, a man previously fined for undressing in public.
This activist made the headlines of many Spanish newspapers in September 2022 after trying to enter a Valencia court wearing only boots. He was then tried for walking around naked in public.
Public nudity has been legal in Spain since 1988, but people can be prosecuted for disturbing the peace if their state of nudity provokes or disturbs other people.
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