The PSOE has decided to take Vox and its president to the Prosecutor’s Office for a hate crime both because of the words spoken by Santiago Abascal in an interview with Clarín, in which he said that “there will be a given moment when the people will want to hang Sánchez for the feet”, as for the “harassment, threat and attack” at the headquarters of the Socialists, in particular at the Ferraz street in Madrid.
It was announced yesterday by the spokesperson of the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, who said that his group will “certainly” present a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office today because he sees “a clear crime of hate against the Socialist Party”. “We want the full weight of the law and the Penal Code to fall on Abascal and Vox”, said López in a press conference in the Lower Chamber in which he pointed out that his group is interested in the complaint not only not only the words, with reference to the controversial interview with Abascal, but also the actions.
“We are not talking about any nonsense because these words are the ones that some can use as justification for violence”, the ex-lehendakari pointed out. “If Pedro Sánchez is a tyrant to be hanged by the feet, if we are the enemies of Spain, then against them, in any way, anything goes”, denounced López, who warned that “in this country there are many people who are waiting to attack because they are being fed hate”.
For this reason, the socialist spokesman took the opportunity to denounce a “lukewarm” PP that, despite having rejected Abascal’s words, “immediately afterwards put a but” and, in his opinion, in the face of these condemnations “there are no buts that count because the buts are justifications”.
It was Abascal himself who responded on behalf of Vox and was “delighted” with the complaint, although he urged the Socialists to present it before the judges instead of the Prosecutor’s Office, which, as he said, depends on the Government of Pedro Sánchez itself.
For his part, the spokesperson of the PP, Borja Sémper, was “surprised” by the decision of the PSOE to denounce Vox for the mobilizations in front of Ferraz at the same time that the central government “amnestied those who burned Barcelona”, which interpret as “a smoke screen to cover up” the debate of the dam in consideration of the amnesty law proposal. And he was ironic asking himself: “Wasn’t it about dejudicializing conflicts?”.
