The leader of the Cantabrian PSOE, after the attack with explosive artifacts to the headquarters: "They are not going to shut us up, they will not intimidate us"
“Faced with the speeches of hatred, threats, insults, violent vandalisms and attacks against the headquarters of the PSOE, here we will be the Democrats,” says Pedro Casares
Background – A hooded man launches homemade artifacts inside the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria during an act on democratic memory
“I want to launch a message to the Society of Cantabria: here they have us, here we are at the headquarters of the PSOE, looking into the eyes of all those people who do not respect coexistence, to whom we tell them that in the face of hate speeches, in front of the threats, in front of the insults and in front of the serious step we have seen in the last hours, in front of violent vandalism attacks, in front of the headquarters of the Socialist Party Being the Democrats.
Thus, this Saturday, the general secretary of the Cantabrian Socialists, Pedro Casares, in a public emergency call in which he has been accompanied by more than a hundred militants, supporters, representatives of social organizations, anonymous citizens and almost all of his executive, and that took place at the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria, which was subject this last Friday of a violent attack at the hands of a violent attack at the hands of a violent attack at the hands of a violent attack at the hands of a violent attack at the hands of a He launched several homemade explosive artifacts inside during the celebration of an act on democratic memory.
“We are getting used to normalizing insults and threats on the street or on social networks. We have had a long time painted and messages at our headquarters, but the truth is that we did not expect something like that,” he explained marriage visibly excited, in tears and long applause of the attendees, who have several occasions interrupted their words to show their support to the leader of the Cantabrian socialists.
“Behind the speeches of hate, behind the insults, the consequences come, and yesterday we have seen this, which has remained in what has remained, but that could have gone to more because it has occurred in a public act at the headquarters of a political party with many people,” said Casares during an intervention in which he has also lamented the lack of solidarity and absence of condemnation by the extreme right represented in parties represented in parties represented in parties.
His speeches, his actions and his silences are often complicit in the consequences we are seeing on the streets and headquarters of the political parties. Unfortunately we do not expect anything from the extreme right or those who often protect these types of messages from the unreasonable and the barbarism of people who do not respect freedom or democracy
“A message also towards them: their speeches, their actions and their silences are often complicit in the consequences we are seeing in the streets and at the headquarters of the political parties. Unfortunately we do not expect anything from the extreme right or those who often protect these types of messages from the unreasonableness and the barbarism of people who do not respect freedom or democracy,” said the leader of the socialists.
In his opinion, “we have been normalizing hate speeches too much, protecting hate speeches from the parliamentary tribune, in public spaces or before the media” and “it is the time when all political forces condemn any violent attack and any discourse of hatred.”
Casares, in tears, hugs with the members of his executive after appearing before the press.
In this sense, Casares recalled that, 50 years after Franco's death and so many years after the first Law of Historical Memory, the talk in which the violent attack of a hooded still unidentified occurred had been organized to recognize the change of Francoist names of several streets of Santander and it was also celebrated that an act of the Francisco Franco Foundation had been prevented in a hotel in the city to extol the dictatorship.
In this sense, Casares has said that from the PSOE they will continue to do it “for so many people who could not live in peace, for so many people who fought for peace and for so many people who stayed on the way in defense of democracy in Spain.” “Here we are going to be the PSOE, with the entire Autonomous Executive Commission, with the strength of the militancy and with the strength of all the Democrats to defend what cost us so much to conquer,” he emphasized.
Finally, the general secretary of the Cantabrian Socialists has thanked all the people who have approached the concentration at the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria “to defend dignity, decency, freedom and democracy” and the hundreds of people and political parties that have filled their social networks over the last hours and have sent messages of support, solidarity and democratic claim.
Likewise, he thanked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska and the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, his messages of support and his disposition, as well as the work of the State Security Forces and Bodies, especially of the National Police, in addition to thanking the media for his role as “a powerful speaker against the hate speeches that are traveling the world, Spain Unfortunately, Cantabria also. ”
