The leader of Vox in the council, Juanma Badenas, maintains that thought “does not commit a crime” and that he would “never” be a Nazi
The second deputy mayor of Valencia and head of Vox at the Valencia City Council, Juanma Badenas, has pointed out that being a Nazi “is not a crime” since, as he explained, “thoughts do not commit crimes.” “Being a Nazi is not a crime, it would never be one, but the right to ideological freedom must be allowed,” Badenas indicated in an interview this Thursday on PlazaRadio.
Badenas’ reflection has been to point out that the police could not follow “any order from Minister Marlaska” in relation to the protests in Ferraz this week before which they ended up charging against some protesters who were wearing Nazi symbols. Thus, he has indicated that the police must “simply separate people who have a violent attitude”but not to those who “only have symbols that do not attack anyone.”
In this sense, he has disapproved of “any violent attitude,” but has tried to differentiate those who carry Nazi symbols from those who behave violently. “”It’s like if you (referring to the journalist who interviews you) want to wear a pink t-shirt or I want to wear a yellow t-shirt, why can’t I wear a yellow t-shirt, another thing is what my attitude is,” he said. explained.
It was at that point when Badenas indicated that “being a Nazi is not a crime”, that he would “never” be one, but that one must “leave the right to ideological freedom whatever it may be.” “It’s another thing to behave like a violent person, a racist or a xenophobe,” he indicated, while emphasizing that what is punished “is not the thought, the thought does not commit a crime.” “If that person behaves like a violent person, they must be removed” because, he has ruled, “the right to demonstrate does not admit violence.”
Badenas, who on Wednesday went to the PSPV headquarters in Valencia to attend the rallies called to protest against the amnesty, has defended that these demonstrations are “in favor of the Spanish Constitution” and has disapproved of “any attitude of a violent nature” that exists in this. “I am in favor of citizens being able to demonstrate in the streets, whatever the reason, as long as it falls within the legal and constitutional order,” he said.