The anti-racist group Afroféminas has filed a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office for the racist insults expressed on the social network X, formerly Twitter, against several girls from San Ildefonso who participated in the Christmas Lottery Draw.
According to the complaint, sent by this community, the “presumably criminal” events took place as a result of a video published on December 11 in Madrid a few days later.
The publication unleashed a “flurry” of comments on the social network with “numerous messages of hate” that alluded to the girls’ skin color.
“But this is Spain?” or “They didn’t find any Spaniards? What the hell is this” are some of the messages included in the complaint, which can still be read on the social network and accumulate, some of them, hundreds of ‘likes’.
According to the group, these comments were made with the purpose of inciting and promoting hatred towards these people and, more broadly, towards the entire migrant and/or racialized population, with the intention of creating a climate of harassment and humiliation. capable of producing and reproducing criminal messages”.
The complaint highlights the fact that the passive subjects are minors, “which makes them especially vulnerable victims”, and that the messages have been published “through a mass media”, which “multiplies the potential harmful effect of illicit conduct”.
And it points out that some of the accounts that published them have “clearly neo-Nazi ideological overtones” and at least two of the profiles use in a “public and notorious” Francoist symbols and extremist messages, some of them aimed at promoting “ethnic and racial cleansing.” “.
In its complaint, Afroféminas requests the “express investigation” into these events of which it informs the Juvenile Chamber and the Specialized Chamber against Hate and Discrimination Crimes, in addition to the “precautionary withdrawal of the comments section” of the video it contains. “criminal demonstrations.”
