2024-01-19 15:01:57
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court has agreed to open investigation proceedings against the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, after he said in an interview in the Argentine newspaper Clarion that “there will be a moment” when the people will want to “hang by the feet” of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. According to him, he has advanced The country and confirmed by elDiario.es, the Public Ministry thus follows up on the complaint presented by the PSOE, which also made a link between these statements and the attacks on socialist headquarters that began to occur after the registration of the amnesty law proposal.
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The decree opening these investigations includes a battery of procedures, which includes a request to the Judicial Police to report on the identity of the organizers of the concentrations at the federal headquarters of the PSOE on Ferraz Street in Madrid. In any case, the opening of these proceedings is only the beginning of a procedure. With the information collected, the Prosecutor’s Office will have to decide whether to file a complaint with the Supreme Court or, on the contrary, file the proceedings.
According to the PSOE complaint, the “seriousness” of these statements means that they cannot be protected by freedom of expression since they understand that they may constitute hate crimes and insults and slander against high State institutions. In their 21-page letter, the socialists accused Abascal of “justifying that the people want to use violence against the president.”
Furthermore, Pedro Sánchez’s party denounced that these statements sought “an attack on socialist political thought” and the decisions that could be adopted from it. And that this gives rise to “a public accusation of a group, in this case through the attack on whoever represents it, for reasons of an ideological nature” that places the party and its members and affiliates “at the center of attacks resulting from that accusation.” , as has been happening during the last month, especially in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz street.”
Possible crimes
In the decree, the lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court, María de los Ángeles Sánchez Conde, states that “at first glance they cannot be ruled out” crimes against high-ranking State agencies included in article 504 of the Penal Code. This provision imposes fine penalties on those who slander, insult or seriously threaten the Government of the Nation, among other institutions.
He seems to express more reservations in relation to the hate crime included in article 510 of the Penal Code. Remember, for example, that the Supreme Court is “very restrictive” when it comes to considering politicians as passive subjects protected by hate crimes. And he adds that the jurisprudence of this court also requires that the demonstrations carried out imply a “certain danger” of generating a climate of violence or hostility that can materialize in “specific acts of violence, hatred and discrimination” against certain groups. And in these groups, according to doctrine, there are minorities and traditionally oppressed and vulnerable groups.
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