MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has accused the PP this Wednesday of spreading hoaxes after being accused by the main opposition party of lying in the face of the increase in crime or the death of migrants in Melilla on June 24. “We live in a safe country, security is not a concern in Spain,” he replied.
In the control session in Congress, Grande-Marlaska has argued that the PP “does the Government a favor” by using the crime rate that, according to him, does not concern more than 90% of citizens. As data, he has pointed out that the crime rate in 2012 –with the PP– was 48 crimes per thousand inhabitants, while now it is “just over 41”.
In this sense, he has mentioned the increase of 13,000 agents with respect to the PP stage, for which he has alluded to controversies such as the ‘Kitchen case’: “Today, the crime rate is zero in the Ministry of the Interior “.
“Knowing you, it would not surprise me if you were in charge of negotiating with Mr. Puigdemont the reform of the crime of sedition and that the Police did not arrest you, was it you?”, asked the PP Interior spokeswoman, Ana Vázquez . In addition, she has been interested in the BBC documentary that, according to the deputy, confirms the “lies” about the tragedy in Melilla in which at least 24 migrants died.
Grande-Marlaska has reproached him for resorting to hoaxes, which he has related to the fact that the PP “has kidnapped one of the powers of the State and they have declared themselves a rebel against the Constitution itself”, alluding to the failure of the renewal of the CGPJ. “Now they mix everything up and talk about security,” she pointed out.
The minister has reproached the PP for using the crime rate published by the Interior when comparing the data with those of 2020 and 2021, when the statistics dropped due to confinement and the Covid-19 pandemic. Vázquez, for his part, has censured that the Ministry justifies the 19% increase in crime in sexual crimes that now “more is reported thanks to feminist slogans.”
The ‘popular’ deputy has maintained that “fights in the streets, thefts by 45%, robberies with violence by 33% or occupation by 41%” have also increased “by 48%”, discrediting her lack of authority with an average of 30 assaults per day.
Vázquez has also alluded to the dismissal of an inspector from Valencia who, according to her, “dared to say that 11% of the total Spanish population commits 32% of the crimes are foreigners.” “That data is official and has been given by the INE”, she has underlined before reproaching him that “he is only concerned with emptying the prisons” to favor ETA prisoners.
“You distort the data,” Grande-Marlaska has reproached him, recalling that the “popular” spokeswoman pointed to Spain as the country with the most irregular migrant arrivals, when Italy and the Balkans “tripled” the data.
