The Secretary General of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has announced that tomorrow Thursday they will register a bill in the Congress of Deputies to criminally prosecute "those riffraff who profit by persecuting the vulnerable", in reference to companies like Desokupa.
Belarra has made this announcement at a rally held in Alicante, in which the party's candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Héctor Illueca, has also intervened, among others.
Sources from Podemos have indicated that they will promote a reform of the Penal Code to persecute Desokupa and punish its members with up to 4 years in prison.
A reform of the Penal Code to expressly prosecute people and companies that, motivated by profit, harass, harass, discriminate or intimidate people in vulnerable situations. This legal reform would create a new type that would allow the dissolution of organizations such as Desokupa and would impose sentences of up to four years in prison on its members, according to sources from this political formation.
In the words of Belarra, "companies like Desokupa are a serious democratic problem, they are the germ of a vigilante command, and we are not going to allow people to profit by spreading hatred to the vulnerable, aporophobia."
The president of Desokupa has not been slow to respond to Belarra. "If you want to make a fool of yourself, hurry up, before Podemos disappears."
The Podemos proposal, which will be registered tomorrow Thursday in Congress in the form of a bill, underlines the need for a new wording that raises the criminal reproach for those who do business against people in vulnerable situations, and that combines elements of the crime coercion and hate crime.
Specifically, articles 510, 510 bis and 515 of the CP would be modified, to penalize with a fine of six to twelve months and imprisonment from one to four years to "who, for profit and for the achievement of their purposes, promote, directly or indirectly incite, encourage or carry out acts of harassment, discrimination, bullying, violence or intimidation against people who are in a situation of economic or social vulnerability, even when said action is a mere means to achieve their goals”.
In addition, the dissolution of the legal persons (companies) responsible for said crimes would be established and their access to the Internet would be blocked.
Thus, for-profit companies that "encourage, promote or incite" hatred, hostility, discrimination or violence" against people in a situation of economic or social vulnerability would be considered illegal associations, for which reason they could be persecuted and imposed on their members. members the corresponding penalties.
