Abstract

The paper analyses the international regulations relating to hate crimes, as well as the regulatory and jurisprudential treatment that these offences receive in the Criminal Code and the oscillations relating to their interpretation, from their consideration as a strictly formal offence, where the mere communicative act that contains praise for terrorists or justification of their acts would be behaviour that could be subsumed under the criminal offence. On the other hand, a different option requires that these expressions of hatred are directed against certain disadvantaged groups, that they involve incitement to commit a crime, and that they generate a risk for these people or their rights.