Graffiti on a train carriage in Mallorca.

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Majorca Daily Bulletin reporterPalma27/05/2023 08:59
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A court in Palma has sentenced two men to eighteen months in prison for having painted graffiti on train carriages at Marratxi station in February 2019. They will have to pay the SFM rail operator 2,257 euros for the damage caused and pay a fine of 2,700 euros.

The judge found it proven that the two defendants - one from Catalonia, the other from Madrid - had jumped the turnstiles and then used spray paint. They admitted that they were at Marratxi station on the day in question and that they did have spray cans among their belongings, but they insisted that they did not do the graffiti. They said that they had been commissioned to do some work but were not graffiti vandals. One of them explained that he was in Mallorca because he had won 16 spray cans in an Instagram raffle.

On the day of their arrest they were seen by security guards on camera passing by the two carriages. They had jumped the turnstiles, they admitted, because they didn't want to pay. Days before, it was maintained, they had done the same and this coincided with the appearance of the graffiti.

The ruling is not final and can be appealed to the Provincial Court in Palma.