The image caused surprise: a doll pretending to be the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, hanging from a traffic light and beaten by some of the participants in the end of the year celebration in the vicinity of Carrer Ferraz, where the headquarters of the PSOE.
The convenors of this event, in which the twelve New Year’s grapes had to be eaten, were Revuelta, an organization promoted and acclaimed by the ultra-nationalist party Vox. The rather mediocre success of the call, around three hundred people, did not prevent the scene from causing astonishment, especially among some members of the Spanish Government and the Socialist Party, who are considering denouncing the events as a hate crime .
In fact, yesterday the National Police called to declare the organizer of the protest while Revuelta’s social network justified the act and explained that in reality Sánchez’s doll was “a piñata full of nougat”.
The images transcended through the X social network of the reporter Israel Merino, who spread the video in which some ultra supporters are seen attacking the figure hanging from the traffic light with sticks to the cries of “Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch” or “Cal eliminate it like that”.
The scene fully aligns with a recent speech by Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, who suggested that Sánchez will end up hanging by his feet, a sentence he later regretted and assured that he does not want anyone to end up this way.
Then the PSOE already announced that it would file a lawsuit against the ultranationalist leader, which possibly caused the subsequent rectification.
Ministers Pilar Alegría, Óscar Puente and Diana Morant denounced the simulation of the hanging of the President of the Central Government. “They started by besieging the headquarters of the PSOE and now they are simulating the hanging of the president of the Spanish Government. Enough is enough!” cried the spokeswoman for the Executive, Pilar Alegría, and the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, in a publication on the X social network, condemned the acts. “The right and its leaders turn insults into slogans that invite hatred.” “From that dust come these muds”, he said.
“The truth is that they stopped being funny a long time ago. The complacent attitudes of some PP leaders and their media terminals have given them wings. This can no longer be allowed”, pointed out, for his part, the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, in relation to the same facts.
