Sergio García Torres (Podemos) asked to investigate alleged threats on the social network Twitter
MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Court of Instruction Number 5 of Madrid has opened preliminary proceedings as a result of the complaint filed by Sergio García Torres, a member of Podemos and general director of Animal Rights in the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, for the alleged threats that he would have received by the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation.
In a car, to which Europa Press has had access, Judge Carmen Valcarce has assured that the facts denounced by García Torres “have the characteristics of an alleged crime of threats”, for which she has deemed it pertinent to refer the case to the Prosecutor’s Office for to rule on the matter.
The leader of Podemos filed a complaint with the Madrid courts for a video of more than two minutes that the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation published on its official Twitter account on September 29. The video was accompanied by a message that said: “The only purposes of the Animalista Law are to end hunting and water subsidies to the Animalista Chiringuito.”
In the complaint, to which this agency has also had access, García Torres assured that with said publication the federation tried to “intimidate one of those responsible for the preparation of the aforementioned bill.”
“Although in addition to using legitimate criticism, they add threatening images to the video that invite the firing of a firearm against the general director, no less than from a hunting federation, whose members, almost by definition, possess firearms” , has indicated the legal team of the leader of Podemos.
For García Torres’s lawyers, the publication of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation “exceeds legitimate criticism and gives dissemination a clearly threatening quality, which we understand is extremely serious considering its intrinsic content, the public dissemination of the same , as well as the group to which said dissemination is directed”.
As a result of this complaint, in addition to opening the corresponding preliminary proceedings, the head of the court has asked the National Police to identify the people who would have participated in the alleged threat to the leader of Podemos.
