The PSOE denounces Vox and Abascal at the Prosecutor's Office for their "clear direct incitement to hatred and discrimination"

He assures that his words "represent a serious breach of coexistence" and seek "an attack on socialist thought"

MADRID, 13 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PSOE has presented this Wednesday to the Prosecutor's Office a complaint against Vox and its president, Santiago Abascal, for their "clear direct incitement to hatred and discrimination" after the leader assured last Sunday that "there will be a moment" in which The people will want to "hang by the feet" of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

In their writing, collected by Europa Press, the socialists maintain that these words "go far beyond the right to honor of the president," of the party "or the people of the Government or even the institution they represent." "They represent a serious breach of coexistence and the constitutional order, since they seek an attack on socialist political thought, and the decisions that can be adopted from it, giving rise to what precisely it tries to avoid with the so-called hate crimes, a public signaling of a group," they add.

That is why they ask the Public Ministry to investigate whether the events reported could constitute the crime of slander or slander, particularly with respect to the Government of Spain or could be susceptible to a hate crime for inciting the same against Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government.

In this case, they point out, they seek "an attack on those who represent them for reasons of an ideological nature, placing them, the PSOE they represent, and their members and affiliates, at the center of attacks resulting from this accusation, as is happening during last month, especially in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street".

The socialists emphasize that these statements by Abascal, made in an interview in 'Clarín', occur in a temporal context in which during the month of November there have been "concentrations in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street that have ended on numerous occasions in a violent manner with arrests for public disorder, and attacks and injuries to security forces and bodies, coinciding with a wave of vandalism attacks on PSOE headquarters throughout Spain, as is public and notorious.

In the opinion of the PSOE, Abascal makes a "clear allusion to the death of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945." "The image of the dictator hanging by his feet by the people is the express reference to what happened to the body of Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945, that after being shot, his body was taken to Milan and abandoned in a square to that an angry crowd insulted and physically abused him, then hanging him upside down from a metal beam," they recall.

In the complaint, the training relates the aforementioned attacks to "the seriously insulting and slanderous attribution of facts that damage their honor, which represents a violation of the right to non-discrimination for ideological reasons, which cannot be protected by freedom of expression." .

"The reported conduct is a clear example of this discriminatory motivation, because along with what could be covered by more or less severe, bitter or even unpleasant criticism, for a management or a political action, it has a connecting link, the attack by attack due to the belonging of those affected to a group, which in this case is one that defends socialist ideas, whom he expressly despises as 'shitty lefties' or 'scoundrels'," he adds.

But, in addition, the PSOE insists that Abascal's words "are simultaneously framed alongside a series of judicial actions" that Vox has initiated against Sánchez and his appointment "that have been unsuccessful, denying his entire string of insults and slander against him." the president and his Government, as has been reported by both the General Council of the Judiciary and the media".

"It must be concluded that, although ideological freedom and freedom of expression protect the free expression of ideas, even those that are rejectable and annoying for some people, in no case can such freedoms provide coverage for contempt and insult against people or groups, or the generation of feelings of hostility against them, thereby constituting hate crimes," the complaint concludes.