Podemos finished its Spring Festival in Valencia and the entire party delegation at the state level was preparing to return to Madrid. The means of transport used, the AVE. However, when they were at the Joaquín Sorolla station ready to take the return train, one of his deputies was stopped by the Police to require their identification and documentation control.
Although the delegation was large, the request for documentation only fell on one person: Serge Mbaye, parliamentarian of the purple formation in the Community of Madrid and of Senegalese origin. The only one, as Pablo Echenique expressed on his Twitter account, who “coincidentally” is black and that he was the only one who was required to provide documentation.
“Coincidence or racism?” She asked Serige Mbaye on her social networks, attaching a photo in which the National Police effectively demanded that she show the documentation and that she would respond to the so-called racial raids in which the Police ask for the documentation of people with foreign features.
“We have just experienced a check in Valencia by the national police on companero Serigne for the simple fact of being black,” added his party colleague and head of Podemos International, Idoia Villanueva.
According to Levante-EMV, the Ombudsman formulated a new recommendation to the Interior this week in which he asks the Security Forces and Bodies “to eradicate identifications by racial profiling & rdquor ;. To do this, he urges produce statistics disaggregated by race and ethnicity along with the reason for the identification. The Ombudsman’s recommendation arises as a result of a complaint from the NGO València Acoge and it is the fourth time that the body has ruled on this since 2013.