• Courts: The Prosecutor's Office denounces a tweeter for inciting hatred against Menas by distributing a fake video

Second judicial investigation opened in Spain for spreading false news on social networks to generate hatred and discrimination against a group. The Investigating Court number 6 of Martorell has opened proceedings after receiving a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office against Hate Crimes and Discrimination, which is coordinated by the prosecutor Miguel Ángel Aguilar, against a twitter user, residing in Sant Andreu de la Barca, for broadcast a video in July last year in which a man is seen beating a woman "brutally" and put the comment "here is the video of the Moroccan Mena from Canet de Mar, to those who are going to give paguita until the age of 23, the children of Pedrito Piscinas. By the way, then for more INRI rapes her, these energúmenos and these herds of Moroccans will not appear in the media. "

In his complaint, the prosecutor adds that it is a video "45 seconds long and that was viewed 21,900 times, you can see how a man brutally assaults a woman, giving her 15 punches to the head, followed by 7 kicks also in her head, which ends up knocking her unconscious. She then tries to pull her pants down and finally ends up grabbing her by the hair and dragging her on the floor until she disappears from the field of view of the surveillance camera that records the events. " In addition, it highlights that "the recording was made on 06/22/2019 and corresponds to some of an aggression that occurred in the People's Republic of China, having been reported by the authorities of that State to achieve the identification of the author through citizen collaboration. It has nothing to do with any event that occurred in Spain, much less in the town of Canet de Mar ".

Last summer there were several arrests in the Maresme area, including Canet de Mar, in which some unaccompanied minors from nearby centers were implicated for alleged violent crimes. The prosecutor points out that the complaint acted "motivated by his animosity and deep rejection of foreign immigrants of Moroccan origin, and among them his most vulnerable sector such as unaccompanied minors."

The complaint states that false news "has a great presence on the internet and tends to take advantage of current moments or incidents, providing audiovisual material believing the receiver that they are related. In this case, with the dissemination of the aforementioned text and the shocking video, the defendant intended , with manifest contempt for the truth and in a massive and indiscriminate way among all the potential users of the social network twitter, associate the content of the video with an alleged rape that occurred in the town of Canet de Mar, apparently committed by two minors on 06/29/2019, all in order to defame unaccompanied minors from other countries that come to our country, associating them in a general way with violent acts and sexual assaults, discrediting them thereby contributing to awaken or increase prejudices and stereotypes against this group of people among the population, esp especially vulnerable, with the consequent risk of generating feelings of rejection and social hostility towards them. "

In addition, the prosecutor points out that "the profile of the defendant contains multiple publications of a xenophobic and racist nature, which can be consulted by anyone on the Internet, with alleged distorted information about immigrants in general, all of them presided over by the identical frontal rejection of the presence of foreigners in Spain, especially if they are North African and / or Muslim ". That is why he accuses him of a crime of incitement to hatred for reasons of discrimination related to the nation or national origin.

The investigation began after the General Directorate of Attention to Children and Adolescents of the Generalitat filed a complaint for the dissemination of this video, which was also published by other users. The prosecutor accused the one who is domiciled in Barcelona and transferred the actions to the prosecutors of Murcia and Almería, since other users reside there who also spread it, in case they consider that they committed a crime by using "expressions and images that could represent a promotion, favoring or inciting violence, hatred, hostility or discrimination against unaccompanied minors, or an injury to their dignity. "

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