Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, filed the complaint with the Public Ministry, which has asked the Police to send him all the data he has on the incident.
The Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has just cleared up a doubt. She has decided to initiate proceedings on the macho chants of the students of the Elías Ahuja residence hall, in which they called their neighbors from the Santa Mónica “whores, nymphomaniacs and rabbits.” As a result of the complaint filed on Thursday by the Movement against Intolerance, the Public Ministry has opened investigation proceedings in relation to the insults uttered last Sunday by a hundred residents of the Elías Ahuja (which houses 175 university students), and that have unleashed a wave of indignation and widespread condemnation from different social and political sectors after a video was released that has gone viral and in which it is heard: “Bitches, come out of your burrows like rabbits, you are nymphomaniac whores, I promise you that You are all going to fuck in the capea, let’s go Ahuja!
In principle, the Prosecutor’s Office tries to determine if a crime related to the exercise of fundamental rights and public freedoms, commonly known as a hate crime, has been committed. And to this end, he has requested the Police to send him all the information available about this event, which is already a step forward, since until now he had only received the complaint but had not initiated proceedings. However, as pointed out by that body, the proceedings can end with the filing of the complaint or with its prosecution, in which case the Prosecutor’s Office could call the ringleader who started the macho shouting and who has already been expelled from the college, as well as to the rest of the students involved and to the direction of the center. “But that is running a lot,” they insist from the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office, which for the moment has requested information from the Police.
As the only complainant in this case that has impacted Spanish society, the president of the Movement Against Intolerance, Esteban Ibarra, appreciates that progress is being made in settling responsibilities “because there are different levels of action or omission.” In his opinion, there is a clear hate crime” established in article 510.2.A of the Penal Code, which contemplates penalties of one to four years in prison and fines that can reach four thousand euros to those who “promote, promote or directly incite or indirectly to hatred, hostility, discrimination or violence» against a social group, whether due to racism, anti-Semitism or for reasons of discrimination based on sex, which could fit in this case.
“We see the macho and misogynistic action perfectly incardinable in this article,” said Ibarra, very critical of the “banalizations that are being made,” especially by some young women from the Santa Mónica residence hall, who have downplayed the insults, and they have circumscribed them to a joke between boys and girls from neighboring halls of residence.
«They do not realize that this action harms all women, which goes far beyond their friendship with the young people of the other residence hall. The damage is done to all women. It is a damage to human dignity,” said the president of the Movement Against Intolerance, who also noted that “surely” there will be schoolgirls “who do not like being treated as whores and nymphomaniacs.”
“I was organized”
Esteban Ibarra recalled that they have filed the complaint so that the hate crimes section of the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office investigates the events. “Perhaps if it had been something spontaneous we would have cut ourselves off, but it is a synchronized and organized action as if they were soccer ultras” and he confessed that he is concerned that the matter is trivialized because “it reflects an ethical alienation.” “If that happens in all the halls of residence, it means that we have cancer.”
Asked if he believes that the complaint can be kept “alive” if the young women of Santa Mónica, as the majority maintain, do not feel attacked, Ibarra said he recalled that in cases of gender violence there are women who also downplay the aggression, and do not That’s why you have to stop complaining. “I may not feel attacked because I do not want to antagonize anyone, or I do not want reprisals or because my code of ethics is low, but we have fought hard to defend dignity and hate crime has to protect human dignity,” she concluded.
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