Indicator history

In its "Fourth Report about Spain" (February 2011). In the penal area, since 2005 there have only been ten cases in which a racist motivation has been found as an aggravating circumstance. Related to the aplication of the article 510, only four cases have derived in successful judicial action since 2005 (Recomendation N. 10 of the Fourth Report about Spain ECRI). In The Memoire of the Attonrney of Barcelona 2010 (first attorney in Spain with a special department for Hate and Discrimination Crimes) it is repeted as in the 2009 Memoire, that penal and civil practice reforms are necessary in order to allow the Justice Administration to count on better tools for the persectution of hate crimes with a discrimination component. In the same sense the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the Consideration of Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Conventionemtido on March the 11th of 2011.