The Government of Gibraltar has filed a complaint with the State Attorney General's Office for a possible hate crime. The complaint informs a series of facts committed by various leaders of the Vox political party that could be constitutive of this crime , provided for and punishable in article 510 of the Criminal Code.

Specifically, as sources close to the Gibraltarian Executive have confirmed to El Mundo, the complaint refers to the training leader, Santiago Abascal Conde , and also includes Javier Ortega Smith, Jorge Buxadé Villaba and Agustín Rosety Fernández de Castro.

In addition, they request the Prosecutor's Office to identify the people who manage the Twitter profiles of the party itself as well as the Gibraltar Spanish account . Means that, according to Gibraltar "are used not only to make false, humiliating and vexatious manifestations , object of denunciation, but mainly, to achieve a wide diffusion and, with it, its objective: that it is encouraged, promoted and incited to hate, hostility, violence and discrimination against the Gibraltarian people and their institutions. "

The Government of Picardo considers that the demonstrations uttered by these people are creating a genuine ideology of hatred , with the coverage of the party itself and with the collusion of the people behind the profile of Gibraltar Spanish. All this continues from the number 6 of Convent Place, the headquarters of the Llanito Executive, "based on uncertain facts that, intentionally omit , such as: the good and efficient collaborative relationships between Spain and Gibraltar both in the police field as judicial, in the fight against drug trafficking and illicit activities, as well as fiscal transparency and exchange of information on fiscal matters. "

In his report to the Spanish Prosecutor's Office, reference is made to a long list of statements by Vox and its leaders, which shows a clear strategy to denigrate the Gibraltarians . "All this seems conceived to generate an atmosphere of hatred among the Spaniards towards Gibraltar ."

From the Rock they remember that a few weeks ago the representative of Vox in La Linea de la Concepcion resigned accusing the national leaders of the party of fomenting hatred towards the Rock .

The Government of Gibraltar recalls the long and dark history in Europe of attacks on minorities by extremist political ideologies. "The results of some of these hate campaigns constitute an indelible stain in the history of Europe, and for that reason we will spare no effort to ensure that those who foster hatred against their people are judged with the full weight of the law."

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