Wednesday 24 May 2006, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Ortuño Aix José María
The terrorist attacks in Madrid M-11 did not demand the production of fresh exceptional laws, since a whole exceptionalist framework was already designed and well developed to face the activities of armed groups, and particularly those of the Basque independentist ETA. We approach to Spanish exceptionalism from the view of the legal perspecetive called Criminal Law of the Enemy (also called Criminal Law of Police) developed by German legal scholar, G. Jakobs. The antiterrorist policies implemented after Madrid bombings have fitted well that legal perspective and have meant a wider criminalization of Muslim migrants and in general the view society have of Islam.
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