2024-01-02 17:42:22
The controversy continues over the demonstration organized by the ‘Revuelta’ group, a group in the Vox orbit, in front of the PSOE headquarters on New Year’s Eve, in which a doll representing the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was hanged and beaten. This same Monday, the socialists announced that they would take legal action against the participants and organizers for what they consider a hate crime, and the Police have already called the organizer to testify.
The socialist party attacked the formation led by Santiago Abascal, but also against the Popular Party, which it accuses of fueling this type of protests. “The political responsibility is to stop this,” said the PSOE spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Patxi López, “and that is why we tell the PP to break up, since it has not yet come out to condemn what happened.”
The PP responds to the PSOE
However, Abascal himself has also fired against the popular ones, and more directly against Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “Mr. Feijóo is responsible for a campaign to demonize Vox,” he wrote on his ‘X’ account, formerly known as ‘Twitter’, “and will be responsible (with Ferraz’s applause) for the harassment that Vox will suffer. “.
One of those who has spoken from the PP about what happened in Ferraz is the deputy Rafael Hernando, who describes the scene as “despicable” and then launches a dart at the socialists for similar actions against the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy and King Felipe SAW. “The doll in front of Ferraz is as despicable as those who pretended to guillotine Mariano Rajoy or the king,” he expressed in ‘X’, “the bad thing is that those who smiled in silence before and are now victims, seek to penalize their own while decriminalizing insults to the Crown, or glorifying ETA”.
Hate crime does not exist in Spain
In the PSOE they insist that the facts may constitute a hate crime. However, jurists are not so clear, since this concept does not exist in the Spanish Penal Code. That is, hating is not a crime. On the other hand, what Article 510 does indicate as punishable, with penalties of up to four years, is “directly or indirectly inciting hatred, hostility, discrimination or violence against groups or people” for reasons of race, sex, religion or ideology. “In Spain, hating is not a crime,” explains criminal lawyer Guillermo Chaverri, “it may be reprehensible, but it falls within the moral and ethical sphere of each citizen.”
However, a very relevant nuance should be added. Jurisprudence only admits this type of crime when it is committed against victims who belong to a vulnerable group, as could be the case of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (MENA). In September, seven people in Melilla were convicted for posting racist messages against the Menas on social media.
Therefore, in the event that the target of these actions is not considered vulnerable, the most common thing is that the report as a hate crime is filed. This group includes political parties, the President of the Government, the king or even groups such as the security forces.
In this way, what happened in Ferraz on New Year’s Eve would belong to this second group. In fact, it is not the first time, far from it, that something like this has happened. Felipe VI, on one of his visits to Catalonia, was received by the CDR with a hanged doll on the road simulating the monarch. Likewise, a very controversial video emerged of a man shooting targets with his shotgun with photos of politicians such as Sánchez, Irene Montero or Pablo Iglesias. Still, all of this ended in nothing.
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