Rufián: “If more judges had raided a supermarket, perhaps there would not be seven pedophile Murcian businessmen on the street”

The ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has taken advantage of an intervention in Congress to attack Judge Eloy Velasco, who a few days ago criticized MEP Irene Montero for her past as a cashier in a supermarket. “If in this country there were more judges who had cheated to get their degree and the position of judge in a supermarket checkout, perhaps there wouldn’t be seven, eight Murcian businessmen who were pimps and pedophiles on the street. “You understand me, right?” he said.

With this he has referred at the same time to the eight Murcian businessmen involved in a prostitution network who recently avoided prison after reaching an agreement with the Murcian Prosecutor’s Office. The accused businessmen converted a maximum sentence of between 24 to 56 years to one of between five months and two years for each of the crimes after reaching an agreement in accordance with the purpose of reducing the prison sentences and avoiding the celebration of the trial. In return they acknowledged the facts. One of the reasons that led to the agreement was the fact that the trial took ten years to take place.

This is the case that Rufián has taken up from the stand to defend Montero, attacked a few days ago with classist comments by a judge from the National Court. “They tried to explain to us what consent means… To a jurist, who we have been following since Roman law, knowing what consent is (…) and a thousand other things that Irene Montero will never learn from her Mercadona cashier,” stated the judge. Velasco, as can be seen in a video published by El País.

“There are judges here who are fascists. Fascists and above all they are classist,” said Rufián, during his response to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in an extraordinary appearance in Congress, in which he reproached him in passing for having done nothing during his term to democratize the judiciary.

That is when he criticized the classism of the judges. “If in this country there were more judges who had cheated to get their degree and the position of judge in a supermarket checkout, perhaps there wouldn’t be eight Murcian businessmen who were pimps and pedophiles on the street. “You understand me, right?” he said in his speech.

Rufián has insisted on his criticism of the Government for remaining silent when Justice went against the independentistas or their partners from Unidas Podemos. “For a long time you were silent. Be careful, the one for them is one for everyone. The following are you, you said: no, Spain is a country with a very full democracy, without democratic deficiencies.”