The head of the ERC list for the general elections, Gabriel Rufián, has denounced the homophobic insults and “threats” by the company Desokupa and hundreds of users as a result of their participation yesterday in the Pride march in Barcelona, ??to which has warned: “Their hatred is our pride”.
Some 110,000 people, according to the Barcelona Urban Guard -120,000, according to the organization- participated yesterday in the Catalan capital in the traditional march on the occasion of International LGTBIQ Pride Day, a mobilization that this year coincided with the general election campaign and which broke a participation record.
Among the different politicians and candidates from various political formations who attended the march on different floats was Rufián, along with other ERC colleagues, who also shared different images on their social networks showing their support for the LGTBI collective.
But a day later, the ERC candidate has denounced on Twitter the insults he is receiving, after the controversial extrajudicial eviction company Desokupa has published on Instagram some photographs of Rufián in that march.
“What some do to add four votes… Gabriel Rufián is now “Rufinita”, which I think is wonderful, but you really come out of the closet a week before the elections. Well, nothing, macho, we still love you whatever you are, handsome”, says the publication of Dani Esteve’s company.
A publication that in just two hours on Sunday already had more than 6,170 likes and almost 400 comments, many of them offensive against Rufián and the LGTBI collective, which the ERC candidate himself has shown in several screenshots through his social networks , as a complaint.
“Like this since yesterday,” Rufián lamented, alluding to that publication and other comments received through social networks. “Homophobia and threats. Their hatred is our pride. You will always have me in front of you, Nazis,” he replied.
It is not the first time that Desokupa has targeted Rufián, since the ERC candidate was, for example, one of the politicians whose face appeared on the large canvas that the company placed on a Madrid building against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez , but also other leaders of Podemos, ERC and the commons.
The Observatori contra l’Homofòbia (OCH) has expressed its support for the ERC candidate Gabriel Rufián after the insults and “threats” he has received on social networks from the Desokupa company and hundreds of users as a result of his participation yesterday in Pride parade in Barcelona.
After Rufián’s complaint, the Observatori has expressed “its absolute condemnation” of the “hate” demonstrations towards the ERC candidate, while making itself “at his disposal” for any action he wants to take for these attacks.
