By Cathy Elelman • Published: 19 Feb 2020 • 17:52
PUNISHMENT: Putting out the video on Whatsapp could lead to a prison sentence. CREDIT: Guardia Civil Almeria
AN Albox woman could find herself behind bars for sharing a video online of a fatal traffic accident in Arboleas. Guardia Civil launched an investigation after the video of the incident in which two people died was shared on instant messaging service WhatsApp. The Guardia said it represented “grave harm to the moral integrity of their family members.” In the video one of the accident victims can be seen receiving treatment from a medical team in the final moments of their life. The Almeria Traffic Subsector Traffic Analysis and Report Group (GIAT), looked into the matter, focusing on a woman driver. She faces a possible sentence of between six months and two years in prison. The case is in the hands of a court in Huercal-Overa.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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