The Faculty of Political Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), on the Somosaguas campus, has withdrawn this Thursday from the interior of the building a doll with a rope around its neck that simulated a king, and has expressed its condemnation of this act .
Next to the doll was a banner that read “The king has an appointment with the town square, a noose around his neck and let the weight of the law fall on him.”
“Given the events that occurred in the Faculty of CCPP and Sociology, the Dean condemns any act that violates the dignity of people or democratic institutions,” begins the statement from the faculty on social networks.
“We have proceeded to immediately remove the offensive symbols and collaborate with the police investigation,” ends the letter on Twitter.
The student association La Chispa, on its Twitter account, has said that “Somosaguas dawns, one day after the commemoration of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, with a clear and concise message: No support for the pillars of the Regime.”
“While the parties of the regime sell us the false idea of ​​a republic under the capitalist framework, far from any revolutionary potential. We have it clear, neither monarchies, nor bourgeois republics. Power for the square. Out with Bourbons! Down with the Regime of 78”, proclaims the message of La Chispa, accompanied by several photographs with the doll hanging before it was removed.
The student association Libertad sin Ira, for its part, has indicated on its Twitter account that “institutions cannot continue tolerating violence against the State. The monarchy is and will be the symbol of all Spaniards. The democratic university must be the nucleus of the defense of freedom and the Constitution in Spain”.
