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Reporting an offence

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

Reporting to an authority facts that may constitute an offence. It can lead to investigative steps but does not prove the allegations or automatically make the reporter a prosecuting party.

Legal reference

Spanish Criminal Procedure Act · art. 259, art. 264, art. 265

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