Article 579 bis of the Penal Code

  Penal Code

1. The person responsible for the crimes provided for in this Chapter, without damage of the penalties that correspond in accordance with the preceding articles, will also be punished, proportionally taking into account the seriousness of the crime, the number of those committed and the circumstances that occur in the offender, with the penalties of absolute disqualification, special disqualification for profession or educational occupations, in the fields of teaching, sports and free time, for a period of between six and twenty years longer than the duration of the prison sentence imposed in the sentence.

2. Anyone sentenced to a serious custodial sentence for one or more crimes included in this Chapter will also be subject to a supervised release of five to ten years, and one to five years if the custodial sentence is less severe. Notwithstanding the above, when it is a single crime that is not serious, and its perpetrator has committed the crime for the first time, the court may or may not impose the measure of supervised release, based on its lesser danger.

3. In the crimes provided for in this Chapter, the judges and courts, reasoning in their sentence, may impose the penalty one or two degrees lower than that indicated for the crime in question, when the subject has voluntarily abandoned his criminal activities. presents himself to the authorities confessing the facts in which he has participated and actively collaborates with them to prevent the commission of the crime, or effectively contributes to obtaining decisive evidence for the identification or capture of other perpetrators or to prevent the action or development of organizations, groups or other terrorist elements to which he has belonged or with which he has collaborated.

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4. Judges and courts, with reasons, taking into account the specific circumstances, may also impose the penalty one or two degrees lower than that indicated in this Chapter for the crime in question, when the fact is objectively less serious, taking into account the means used or the result produced.

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