The PSOE has requested this Wednesday the immediate dismissal of the PP councilor in Torrox (Málaga) Salvador Escudero, responsible for Culture and Popular Traditions, for referring to migrants as animals.
In an interview on municipal radio, Escudero assessed the recent arrival in Torrox of more than 200 immigrants from the Canary Islands, mostly sub-Saharans, who have been transferred by the central government to a hotel in this Malaga municipality in collaboration with La Cruz. Red.
The popular councilor has said that the migrants, “no matter how well off they are” here, it is not known “where they are going to go” or “what they will do”, “if they are going to throw themselves on the road, if they are going to steal a car or if they are going to make a living because they have nothing”.
“And in the face of nothingness, you feel desperation and you reach a moment when you commit something that may not be in your thoughts, but necessity pushes,” said Escudero, who has raised the idea of ??establishing some mechanism of “control.” ” of these people during their stay in Torrox.
“Control I don’t know, unless they put a mark on it like animals, put a bracelet or something like that, I don’t know to what extent there will be control of these creatures that are going to wander around in a month “, has declared.
“There is already typhus in the Canary Islands, we put typhus here, we don’t know what they can bring us,” added the councilor, who criticized that the Government has not notified the Torrox City Council sufficiently in advance of the arrival of this group. of immigrants.
“That they take it and put it on us like that just because, through the back door, without being able to have something prepared for security, because we don’t know what can happen, it’s like if they put a time bomb in you and tell you that they don’t know when it’s going to happen.” to explode,” he added.
Given the incessant arrival of migrants to the Spanish coasts, Escudero has said that “we cannot allow ourselves to be invaded just like that” and has invited people who “care” about migration to “put these people in their homes and pay taxes.” extra for this kind of thing.”
Given these statements, the PSOE spokesperson in Torrox and national deputy, Mari Nieves Ramírez, has requested the immediate dismissal of councilor Salvador Escudero: “These types of statements have no place in a democratic society like ours.”
Ramírez has stated that public officials cannot use the lives of these people “to engage in politics, to burn the streets and to create tension in the atmosphere” and has called for “calm, tranquility and responsibility” and to let the Red Cross “do its job”.
“We are completely alarmed by the attitude of the mayor, Óscar Medina, and the embarrassing statements of councilor Escudero,” said the socialist leader, who regretted that the PP is acting “once again as an arsonist”, “setting fire” to the town with a matter in which the Government of Spain and the Red Cross “have done what they had to do”, which “is to guarantee the rights of some people, to guarantee human rights.”
“The Popular Party uses this issue to promote racism, when what we, the public and political leaders, have to do is the opposite,” he stated.
Faced with the controversy, Escudero has subsequently expressed his “most sincere apologies” for the “unfortunate statements” made about the transfer of immigrants from the Canary Islands to the town.
