The PSPV announced this Wednesday that its party is going to file a hate crime complaint against Vox spokesperson and second deputy mayor of Valencia, Juanma Badenas, for his “racist and xenophobic” statements linking immigration and Spanish ethnic groups to crime and sexist violence. “.
Gómez has stated that these statements “make any democrat blush” and “should deeply embarrass those who share the Government Board with him.” “It is a shame that this is the toll that Catalá has to pay to have the mayorship of Valencia,” he stated.
For this reason, he has called on María José Catalá to publicly express his strongest rejection of the racist and sexist statements of his number two in the municipal government. “Mr. Badenas is on the Governing Board because Mrs. Catalá opened the doors of the City Council wide to him and if he does not disapprove of his demonstrations, he will be complicit and responsible in the first person for demonstrations that embarrass us as a society. Mrs. Catalá has an opportunity to rectify her number two,” he continued.
“For her to be mayor, she cannot make us Valencians swallow characters of this moral character. Because Mr. Badenas is not only a xenophobe and a sexist. In addition, he is clearly making a proclamation and inciting hatred against the migrant group,” he stated.
Gómez has highlighted that this is not the first time that Catalá’s number two has made comments that are “shameful and embarrassing for a public representative”, since just a few weeks ago he justified Nazism by defending that being a Nazi was not a crime in the media. Communication.
Thus, in the face of racist, sexist and hate-inciting comments, Gómez has announced that the Socialist Party will file a complaint for a hate crime against the Vox spokesperson in the Valencia City Council and number two in Catalá. “I want to announce that we are going to file a complaint for a hate crime because we understand that the statements he made yesterday on a primetime program could incite hatred against the immigrant group, since he pointed it out and accused them of being the only ones responsible for being perpetrators of sexist violence that murders and kills women,” he said.
Faced with these accusations, Badenas has indicated that he and his party are being attacked for being “at the moment the containment dam in Valencia against pan-Catalanism.” “That’s why he attacks us, insults us and tries to intimidate us. But we are not going to give an inch to his attempts to silence us and the thousands of Valencians who support us,” he said.
For this reason, Badenas has indicated that his party will study “possible legal actions against Sandra Gómez for a crime against honor because not everything fits into the political debate.”
