A bar owner in Spain has been sent to jail for five and a half years for “torturing” his neighbors with loud music from his sound system, officials said last Monday.
A court in Barcelona said three people living near the city’s Donegal pub “developed depressive anxiety syndrome that needed medical treatment” due to the noise from five speakers, which played music non-stop from 9:00am until 3:00am.
The judges described the noise as “a method of torture”.
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The owner of the bar, closed since 2006 by the local authorities, had installed the powerful sound system without permission.
The judges decided to hand down “a stiff sentence, the hardest ever by a Spanish court” for this type of crime, the newspaper El Periodico said.(afp)
西班牙官員上週一表示,一名酒吧老闆因以音響系統播放高分貝音樂「折磨」鄰居,而被判處五年六個月有期徒刑。
巴塞隆納法院表示,該市多尼哥酒吧附近的三名住戶出現「需要靠藥物治療的壓抑性焦慮症候群症狀」,是因為酒吧的五座喇叭每天上午九點到凌晨三點連續播放音樂所致。
法官形容這種噪音是「一種折磨人的手段」。
該酒吧老闆未經許可就擅自裝設強力音響系統;該酒吧二OO六年就被當地政府勒令歇業。
西班牙《El Periodico》報報導,法官決定「重判,這是西班牙法院有史以來對這類案件最嚴厲的判決」。(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
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