The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, believes that the song "Back to 36", performed by a musical group in a Vox act, is "dangerous and worrying" and is "very close" to a hate crime, and has asked to deal with this type of "radicalism" before it is too late, because it is not "anecdotal".
The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has asked the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the performance of a group that performed a song during the Vox party in Madrid this weekend, whose chorus repeated "we are going to return to 36" and that included phrases such as "if you are gay, you want to go see the LGTB pride, you must show your good homosexual card at Cogam" or "feminists are protesting a gang rape, there are ten more to investigate, I don't care, They are from Senegal.
Speaking to journalists in Barcelona, where he attended the National Police Day in Catalonia, Marlaksa asked that these types of speeches be taken "very seriously", since they are "absolutely dangerous, tricky and worrying" and he also believes that they are "very close" to constituting a hate crime, although it has left its qualification in the hands of the Prosecutor's Office.
"These red lines must not be crossed," warned the minister, who stressed that democratic society must deal with these discourses through "counter-argumentation", as is done with "radicalism", because "this is radicalism" . In this sense, he has asked the "truly Democrats" not to take this type of situation as "nothing more is going to happen and it will stay that way" or to treat it as "something anecdotal".
"We must not allow our democratic values to be caught, we must raise our voices", insisted Marlaska, who considers that it is not enough not to give loudspeaker to these words, which are "absolutely foreign" to the principles that mark the democratic citizens, since they attack fundamental rights, public liberties and the dignity of people: "they are speeches that are outside the walls, they are black and white", he said.
What is at stake, according to the minister, is "something as important" as continuing to live within the framework of a democratic state of law in which everyone can express themselves within the law". "Let's not make this just something anecdotal, there are many cases that we see and observe in this area, the time has come, if not before, to deal with this type of demonstration, which if they have not crossed the red line of crime, they are very close to the red line. We don't want to react when it's too late," he said.
In this sense, he has also referred to the sexist insults in a private school in Madrid and has stated that it is not enough with the "simple request for an apology", which seemed "almost obligatory", but that he wants "attitudes and behaviors" to put an end to these types of situations.
On the other hand, Marlaska has assured that Spain is a "full democracy", with a Constitution that "is not militant" and in which "no type of ideology or thought is persecuted", but only deals with crimes , when asked about the information that indicates that, in the framework of a secret judicial investigation by the National High Court for terrorism around the self-styled Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR), the communications of 38 left-wing activists have been intercepted independentist.
The minister has indicated that Spain is a state of law in which the security forces and bodies act, when it comes to limiting a fundamental right -in this case the secrecy of communications-, under the indications and direct orders of the judicial authority. Marlaska has highlighted that Spain is a "full democracy" with a Constitution "that is not militant", and has insisted that "no type of ideology or thought" is persecuted, but only crimes, and always under the tutelage and protection of the judiciary.
On the other hand, asked if the departure of JxCat from the Government means the end of the "procés", as the former leader of the ANC and Junts Jordi Sánchez said, the minister has avoided specifying and has limited himself to affirming that the Government has as "key principles" dialogue and provide stability. "This is the only way for all of us to push forward," said Marlaska, who underlined that since Pedro Sánchez has been in charge of the Government, they have based themselves on dialogue and stability to work in support of Catalan and Spanish society. .
