Vox files a complaint against Grupo Santillana for "identifying the formation as heirs of Nazism" in a textbook

MADRID, 12 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Vox has filed a complaint with the Madrid Investigating Court against the Santillana Global Education Group for "alleged crimes of libel and slander, and a hate crime" for "identifying the group as 'heirs of Nazism'".

Specifically, Vox has filed a lawsuit against the publisher, the director of the Publishing Department, Teresa Gence, and the director of the project to produce one of the textbooks, Lourdes Etxebarria, because, as Vox has learned, the proposed textbook for Contemporary World History relates, in a "direct and express" way, to the formation with a party of "Nazi heritage".

The book in question, aimed at students in the first year of Baccalaureate, is a provisional edition, although it is published and accessible to the general public, as well as to all teachers for their choice and recommendation as a textbook in the next school year, according to Vox.

In the section of the book 'Towards the 2030 Agenda, what do we learn from the past?' An article entitled 'The rise of the extreme right in Europe' is collected, where the remains of Nazi ideology are analyzed, attributing it to the extreme right, Vox has pointed out. And in another part of the article the "Nazi heritage" in the current European national parliaments is mentioned, pointing to Vox as "an extreme right-wing party that continues the ideology of the German Nazi movement", the formation has denounced.

The National Legal Vice-Secretariat of Vox has criticized that the texts present Vox as "extreme right" and "literally express that the formation has 'a contrary discourse and its mania which they call the Islamization of Europe' as core ideas on which turns the political argument of the right and that justifies this classification of Nazi".

In Vox's opinion, these expressions "go beyond the line of criminal offense" and "are ideologizing the text and moving away from reality." In addition, he lamented, "they incorporate an ideological vision of the 2030 Agenda into the text."

For this reason, in the complaint, Vox has also denounced the "violation of the right to education and the right of parents so that their children receive religious and moral training that is in accordance with their own convictions."

In this way, the training has requested the declaration of the defendants, that a copy of the textbook be required and that the publisher be required to identify the author of chapter 10 entitled 'The rise of fascist and Nazi totalitarianism '. Likewise, it has requested that the publisher contribute to the procedure the minutes of the corresponding department in which the approval of the text in question appears.