The PSOE considers that Santiago Abascal has committed a “serious violation of coexistence and constitutional order,” with “incitement to hatred and even violence,” after the Vox leader made a series of statements against Pedro Sánchez in recent weeks He has repeatedly taken action against him. He has been called a “coupist” and culminated on Sunday in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarín in which he said, referring to the government president and general secretary of the Socialists, that “there is a certain moment “The people will want to hang him by his feet.”
“These statements represent a further step in the seriousness of the serious allegations made and culminated in the identification of the President with a 'dictator' by evoking the image of him being 'hung by his feet' by the 'people'.” with a clear allusion to the death of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945,” explains the PSOE in the complaint it filed on Wednesday with the Attorney General’s Office and which EL PAÍS reported. The Italian dictator was summarily executed by an Italian partisan and his body was displayed hanging upside down in Milan. “The expression used has an even greater meaning, since it is not only limited to identifying the democratically elected president with a dictator, but also, through the comparison, justifies that, as with Benito Mussolini, a time will come when this People want to use force against him,” adds the 21-page letter signed by Alberto Cachinero, the legal representative of the PSOE.
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Abascal has also been very active in calling for protests against socialist headquarters as part of his strategy against the amnesty law. The Vox leader even took part in several rallies in front of the PSOE's national headquarters in Madrid, which continued to take place every night, albeit with decreasing numbers of participants, and at their peak brought together up to 8,000 people and led to riots by neo-Nazi groups and Francoists. The PSOE's legal representatives believe that Abascal joined the protests in Ferraz with Tucker Carlson, a US presenter fired by Fox News, known for his far-right speeches and the spread of false reports such as the one about the election fraud favorable to Donald in the year In 2020 it is known that Trump might also have been prosecuted for “discrimination on ideological grounds” due to attacks “on socialist political thought”.
The result, according to the PSOE's legal arguments, would be the “public exclusion of a group, in this case by attacking those who represent them on grounds of an ideological nature, thus putting them, the PSOE, who represent them, in their place. “ and its members and allies are at the center of the attacks resulting from this accusation, as happened last month in particular in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street. According to the Socialists, vandalism occurred in around 150 houses in the city, according to the latest information. The document recalls that Abascal urged police officers not to obey “illegal orders” from their superiors.
The PSOE will ask the Public Prosecutor's Office to agree to the opening of an investigation in accordance with the provisions of current legislation and that the Public Prosecutor's Office carry out the procedures “that it considers relevant to verify the facts of the case and determine whether the crime is criminal or not.” ” “they and their authors, as well as the legal classification that may correspond to them.” Since Abascal is a qualified person due to his status as a congressman, the authority to analyze the contents of the complaint and initiate an investigation rests with the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court, explain Sources from the Public Prosecutor's Office. If, after analyzing the contents of the complaint, the Public Prosecutor's Office determines that there is evidence of a crime, it will carry out the procedures it deems appropriate to verify the facts and determine the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators. Once the investigative procedures are completed, the Public Prosecutor's Office decides whether to file a complaint or complaint with the Supreme Court or, on the contrary, to initiate the initiated procedure if it considers that there is no evidence of a crime.
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The Socialists' legal team has concluded that the reported incidents could constitute a crime of libel or slander within the meaning of Articles 205 and 208 of the Penal Code and could even fall under the offense provided for in Article 504, which is considered a crime in particular insults, slander and serious threats to the government and other state institutions. “The government in Spain is abolishing the rule of law, it is suppressing the judiciary, it is attacking the constitution,” Abascal said in the interview in Clarín.
The worst-case scenario for the president, according to Vox, is that his comments could give rise to a hate crime by inciting him against Sánchez. Article 510 of the Penal Code regulates as criminal offenses the conduct of “anyone who publicly, directly or indirectly, encourages, promotes or incites hatred, hostility, discrimination or violence against a group, a part thereof or against a specific person as a result of his or her conduct.” Membership. which occurs, among other things, for racist, anti-Semitic or other ideological, religious or philosophical reasons. Also from “those who violate the dignity of people through actions that entail humiliation, contempt or discrediting of one of the groups mentioned in the previous section or of a part of them or of a person determined by virtue of their membership.” for racist, anti-Semitic or other ideological reasons” and other factors.
“Direct incitement to hatred”
“These attacks on our representatives, the President and the Government, are at least a clear direct incitement to hatred and discrimination against the socialist political thought represented by the PSOE, as shown by the harassment we are subjected to in our headquarters.” “severely offensive Attributions and defamatory actions that violate their honor, which constitute a violation of the right to non-discrimination on ideological grounds, which cannot be protected by freedom of expression,” argue the socialists.
“Although ideological freedom and freedom of expression protect the free expression of ideas, even if these are negative and annoying to some people, such freedoms can in no way provide protection against contempt and insult to persons or groups or the creation of hostility against them, which constitutes a hate crime,” the socialists claim. “The reported behavior is a clear example of this discriminatory motivation, because in addition to what could be covered by more or less severe, bitter or even unpleasant criticism of a management or a political action, there is a unifying link: the attack by attack “because of.” the person affected belongs to a group that in this case represents socialist ideas, to whom [Abascal] expressly despised [como] “Shitty leftists” or “scoundrels,” says the PSOE legal team in a new reference to the interview in Clarín.
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