vox It took just a few hours to take advantage of the attack committed this Wednesday in Algeciras to stigmatize the migrant population. In the usual line followed by the far-right party, state and regional leaders have used the murder of the parish priest of this Cadiz town to denounce the presence in Spain of migrants from Africa and try to link this group with Islamism, as well as with other illegal practices such as the ‘squatting’ of homes. The messages released by the far-right formation have already been harshly criticized by leaders of other formations.
“Some open the doors for them, others finance them and the people suffer,” the Vox leader published, Santiago Abascal, in reference to the nationality of the attacker. Barely a few minutes had passed since it was known that Yassine Kanjaaa 25-year-old Moroccan citizen with no criminal record who had been subject to an expulsion order since June 2022, had killed with a large bladed weapon Diego Valencia, sacristan of the Church of Our Lady of Palma, in Algeciras. Before this attack, the attacker also visited the parish of San Isidro, where he injured the priest, antonio rodriguez, who is stable. According to witnesses, the detainee shouted “Allah is great!” and “death to Christians!”. The National Court is now investigating the facts as terrorism.
In the same message, Abascal appealed to prevent “Islamism from advancing on our soil.” This Thursday, on his social networks, he has once again published a very similar message in which he no longer only attacks migrants, but tries to link them to other illegal practices: “He entered Spain illegally, he had an expulsion order, he was monitored by jihadism, he was a squatter”. And he finished off the post with a false statement: “The politicians who open their borders and shower them with subsidies cannot hide their responsibility.”
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The Vox spokesman in the Andalusian Parliament has expressed himself even more clearly, Manuel Gavira: “Vox has been denouncing the consequences of this illegal, uncontrolled immigration for years. Those consequences that it has related to security. […] Islamism is already in our land because some open the doors for it, others finance it and we Spaniards suffer the consequences. We are talking about cultures incompatible with ours. The problem of illegal immigration exists and the media will not be able to cover it up.”
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The general secretary of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, He has called Abascal “miserable” after he published on social networks. “This ‘tweet’ perfectly defines the extreme right. It does politics by spreading hatred,” denounced the purple leader. “I think it is miserable to spread hatred towards a group that is already highly stigmatized in such difficult times,” she has sentenced.