The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court has decided to initiate pre-trial criminal investigation proceedings in relation to the events reported by the PSOE and that occurred last New Year’s Eve next to the party’s national headquarters on Ferraz Street, when an identified doll was hanged and beaten. with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
This is stated in a press release collected by Europa Press and issued by the lieutenant prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Duraántez. This decision comes after this Wednesday the head of the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Ana Isabel García León, referred the matter to the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court through an official letter.
“Today, Pre-trial Criminal Investigation Proceedings have been opened by the National Court Prosecutor’s Office to study the reported facts, determine possible crimes and jurisdiction to investigate them,” the note indicates.
The note indicates that the PSOE complaint states that during the rally a doll identified with the President of the Government was hung “and was repeatedly hit while various expressions were uttered that could constitute a crime.”
In their complaint, almost 60 pages long, and to which this news agency had access, the socialists pointed to a possible crime of inciting hatred based on political ideology. As this type of crime can only be applied if it is exercised against vulnerable groups, they argued that the PSOE was persecuted during the Franco dictatorship and during the Civil War.
In addition, they included other possible crimes, such as incitement to violence and assassination; insults against the authority in the exercise of their office; serious insults and threats to the Government of the nation; threats to the President of the Government and the PSOE and its militants as a social group – with an aggravating factor of ideological discrimination -; crime of unlawful assembly or demonstration; or public disorder, the latter being the one that can carry the greatest penalty: 5 years in prison.
They also considered that a crime of illegal financing may have been committed by Vox because, in their opinion, there have been coordinated and organized actions that entail obtaining financial funds for the organization of events that seem to have “a common link” with this formation. .
LINKAGE WITH VOX
In this sense, the PSOE emphasized the link between the promoters of the event and Santiago Abascal’s party, the Revuelta youth organization, based on journalistic information that places it as an entity related to Vox.
The complaint details that one of the leaders of Revuelta, Pablo González Lasca, is responsible for the party’s Digital Marketing, and “it appears that he works in close connection with the Vox deputy, Manuel Mariscal, at the head of the national deputy secretary of Communication.”
In any case, the PSOE clarified that Revuelta is not legally constituted as an association and, therefore, other associations were used, such as Plataforma 711 and ASOMA, which do have a legal formula that allows them to contract and request administrative authorizations.
The socialists specified that Platform 711 was registered by a group of people, including Santiago Aneiros and Javier Majadas, Vox candidates in the municipal elections last May in the town of Algente (Madrid). Another of them, Sergio Garrudo, is the son of Ricardo Garrudo, founder together with Santiago Abascal of the DENAES Foundation, later president of the party in Cantabria until October 2022.
Finally, to underline the relationship that in its opinion exists between Vox and the reported events, the PSOE alleged that what happened on December 31 was “the culmination” of the “harassment” of socialist headquarters in different parts of Spain, also recalling the statements made by Abascal on December 10 to an Argentine media. “There will be a time when the people will want to hang Pedro Sánchez by the feet,” he said.
THE PRESENTERS OF THE GRAPES
The socialists also focused on the presenters of the event, “María Durán and Isaac Parejo”, highlighting that in an interview that both gave in the previous days, they appreciated “the attitude with which the event was prepared, which manifests the premeditated intention of lynching and hatred towards the president, the Government and the PSOE that presided over the call”.
The complaint also highlights that during the broadcast “they heated up the atmosphere” and moments before taking the grapes Parejo declared: “Fuck Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch.” And when they asked him what he asked for the new year 2024, he answered: “Happy year 2024, happy year 2024 to everyone, happy 1936 for the fucking red shit.”
