Agresiones a profesionales sanitarios: tratamiento a partir de la reforma del Código Penal de 2015 de las lesiones y las antiguas faltas

Abstract

With the entry into force of the reform of the Spanish penal system of July 2015 (Organic Law 1/2015), the Criminal Code in force since 1995 has had a number of changes.This article considers the most representative changes that this reform has introduced in injuries and other criminal offenses formerly considered “faults” and now “minor offences”. The objective is to determine the impact of these changes on the criminal and jurisprudential treatment of attacks against health professionals.The analysis has been made from a triple perspective: the opinion of academic writers, criminal legislation, and the interpretation made by the jurisprudence when judging cases of aggressions to this professional group.It is concluded that, at least in where it refers to injuries (both those that were considered as a crime, and the old “faults”, now considered “minor offences”), abuse, minor injuries, and humiliations, their punishment, in practice, has been lowered.