Original Article By Frank Bergman
Spain’s Constitutional Court has struck down all Covid pandemic-era penalties, ruling that the country’s draconian 2020 restrictions violated citizens’ rights.
The court ruled that lockdowns, “vaccines” mandates, mask policies, and other restrictions illegally suspended basic freedoms.
According to The Objective, more than 92,000 fines have already been annulled as of September 3, 2025.
However, this is just the beginning.
The court’s ruling applies retroactively to all penalties imposed during the first lockdown, when more than 1 million fines were handed out nationwide.
In total, an estimated 1.3 million Spaniards were punished for violating government-imposed restrictions.
The ruling exposes the lockdown for what many critics argued all along: a massive power grab.
The court’s decision confirms that the policies unlawfully trampled fundamental rights.
Court Declares Lockdown Measures Unconstitutional
At the center of the decision is Royal Decree 463/2020.
The pandemic-era emergency order banned citizens from leaving their homes during the so-called “state of alarm.”
Spain’s highest court determined that the sweeping prohibition was not just a limitation on movement but a full suspension of constitutional rights.
That level of restriction, the judges ruled, could only have been imposed under a higher-level “state of emergency.”
However, such an order requires much stricter parliamentary oversight, not by decree.
The decision now retroactively voids every fine issued under the unconstitutional order.
Administrative Chaos and Delayed Refunds
While the ruling is clear, enforcement has been chaotic.
The Objective reports that refunds and annulments are proceeding “slowly and unevenly, depending on each territory.”
As such, many Spaniards could be waiting months or even years before they see justice.
So far, only 92,278 cases have been officially revoked.
However, those revoked so far are “just the tip of the iceberg of a regulatory crisis,” the outlet warned.
With over a million penalties still on the books, the scale of the legal and financial fallout could cripple local administrations.
A Regulatory Crisis Exposed
The court’s ruling underscores how Covid lockdowns and other mandates were used to suspend civil liberties on a massive scale.
These rules were bypassing constitutional safeguards in the name of “public health.”
For years, citizens were fined, harassed, and even criminalized under the system.
Yet, Spain’s top court has now declared this draconian system was built on unconstitutional foundations.
Critics say the judgment proves what medical freedom advocates warned throughout the pandemic: governments weaponized emergency powers to crush individual rights.
Ultimately, it was ordinary people who paid the price.
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