This Friday, the PSOE filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the events on New Year's Eve in front of the party headquarters on Ferraz Street, where a group of people beat up a Pedro Sánchez doll. The formation calls on the ministry to open an investigation to find out who is behind this protest, which it sees as a “colophon” of a campaign “with violent undertones” to put the socialists “in the firing line”. In its more than 50-page letter, to which EL PAÍS had access, the political force directly refers to Vox as the “common link” of all the “coordinated actions” of the last few months and lists a series of possible crimes that would fit in their criteria, by hitting the piñata with the picture of the government president: threats, insults, hate crimes, public unrest, illegal demonstrations or serious insults against the head of the executive branch.
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The complaint, signed by Alberto Cachinero (director of the PSOE's Federal Legal Office), describes in detail the beating of the doll and concludes that there appears to be “a relationship” between the organizations that promoted the year-end call and the far right of Vox . The Socialists go even further, assuring that Santiago Abascal's party is behind the “campaign of harassment” carried out in the streets in recent months against the main ruling party, leading to daily mobilizations in front of its headquarters (some of which ended in confrontations ended). with the police and charges). “All these actions that led to the events of December 31st – coordinated, organized over time and constant – appear to have a common link through the political formation Vox,” emphasizes the PSOE in the letter addressed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in which she asks us to examine these “connections”.
Despite the doubts of many lawyers about the possibility that the beating of the Sánchez doll could be prosecuted, the Socialists have decided to go to the Ministry of State. “The statements used and the actions carried out constitute an unlawful attack on the honor of the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE [partido]. Therefore, although freedom of expression has a very wide scope and covers even the most annoying, hurtful or unpleasant criticism, it is not possible, in its communication or expression, to go beyond the intended critical intent and to give it an offensive, derogatory or disproportionate tone (in this Case absolutely disproportionate and violent),” the complaint states.
The letter addressed to the Public Prosecutor's Office continues: “Among the facts that we denounce are repeated offensive attitudes towards the PSOE and its Secretary General, but they go one step further and use language that is absolutely out of date ( “red shit”, “happy”) 1936″) on the doors of our headquarters, which is a public sign of a group for ideological reasons; She, the PSOE that she represents, and her members and allies are at the center of the attacks that arise from this accusation.” “These facts obviously go beyond political criticism and lead the PSOE and in particular Pedro Sánchez to Become the target of a glorification of the behavior with violent undertones, hatred, hostility and discrimination that we experience in these moments that incite nothingness.” -legitimate behavior such as an “assassination” or a “lynching” and thus also abstract threats to one's own safety and personal integrity as well as the representative of the PSOE or “you identify with the socialist ideology” the complaint adds.
Insults and pre-constitutional symbols
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A portion of the complaint, which includes photos of the protest with Ferraz on New Year's Day, focuses on describing what happened that night between 10 p.m. on December 31 and 1 a.m. on January 1. “According to the government delegation, about 300 people took part in the rally, who met at the request of the organizers, who, according to the organizers, purchased wine glasses and a sound system and deployed moderators and DJs for the event,” explains the PSOE's letter. They started “chants against the government and its president as well as the PSOE”: “Accompanied by insults, with banners with disqualifying slogans and sometimes with pre-constitutional flags.” “With joy and anticipation, they hung a doll as part of the event […] “It represents a person, a man with an elongated nose, wearing a black suit, a red tie and a red armband on the left arm with the initials PSOE written on it.” Who was identified as the head of the executive branch?
The doll was beaten for a long time while shouts and slogans were raised such as: “1, 2, 3, hanging by the feet”; “Psychopath”; “Motherfucker”; “Everyone who doesn’t vote is damned red”; “Revolution, Spain, traitor”, “we must burn him, we must burn Ferraz”; “Sons of bitches, Spain has woken up”; “Sánchez in prison, summary trial against the government.” After the piñata was destroyed, it goes on to say, those present picked up the remains from the ground while saying: “It is the entrails of Sánchez” and shouting: “Bring him to Morocco.”
The PSOE also reproduces part of an interview published on the website The Objective with two people it identifies as the moderators of the event broadcast on YouTube: María Durán and Isaac Parejo. “What do Isaac and María want for 2024?” asks the interviewer. “Ugh. “They put me in prison,” Parejo replies. And Durán adds: “No, no, you can't ask about assassinations in videos. No, no, not Isacc.”
Abascal's words
The PSOE refers to the words of Vox leader Santiago Abascal, who said days earlier in an interview in Argentina: “There will be a certain moment when people want to hang him by his feet” to Pedro Sánchez. . “From the seriousness of the metaphor, we have moved to the seriousness of the simulation of the facts,” explain the Socialists in their complaint to the public prosecutor, citing a whole series of organizations and people who promoted and participated in the whole Ferraz protests , linked to the extreme right formation: such as Revuelta, Noviembre Nacional, Plataforma 711 or Asoma (the latter being the person who wanted to testify before the National Police).
In this sense, the socialists demand that their connections be investigated and suggest the possibility that Vox uses them to “obtain economic resources” to finance their political actions “through parallel structures”: “irregularly, through opaque donations and Contributions.” or from banned legal entities.” In fact, the PSOE recalls that the organizers of the New Year's Eve protests had collected money via the Internet to organize this mobilization. “The campaign, which started on December 4th, raised 20,078 euros [según la plataforma utilizada para ello]. “The donations amount to a total of 1,054 donations worth between 5 and 1,000 euros, including someone who claims to be Hermann Tertsch, a Vox MEP,” the Socialists’ complaint states.
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