PRESS RELEASE
20 ANIVERSARY OF LUCRECIA
PÉREZ ASSASINATION
MCI ask Spanish government for
more determination and action in the struggle against racism.
Lucrecia Pérez was an afrodescendent migrant from
Dominican Republic. Her murdered was the first racist motivated crime in the
democratic Spain. It was overwhelmed condemned by majority of the people and
public institutions. Today more than ever is needed to point out that social
environment the make that crime possible are still there.
Economic crisis is having a deep impact in the
increase of xenophobic prejudices against migrants, as it´s shown by officiatl
statistics. Besides, organized extremismt groups are harassing minorities and
feeding intolerance against migrants putting in danger the coexistence in the
more complex diversity society as it is Spain nowadays.
Xenophoby has been strongly boosted by some succed of
xenophobic political countries in several European countries such as Greek,
Hungary, Holland, Germany and Austria among others. Democratic responses
against them are not made in the proper way.
There are mulptiples factors that fooster xenophoby
racism and related intolerance. These are some of the most important element of
a compolex diagnosis:
· Xenophoby
and related intolerance are increasing. Migrants, roma, religious minorities
are suffering this attitudes as it´s shown by official statistic data.
· Internet
is used almost without limitation to spread hatred and intolerance.
· Xenophobic
populism and neo-fascist activities are very well coordinated at European
level.
· Hate
incidents and crimes are still going on.
Therefore, Movement against Intolerance ask to civil
society to get active against this serious problem, Plus, MCI demands to
Spanish Government more determination and decisive actions against racism and
xenophobia.
Measures to be adopted:
· To
enforce article 510 of Penal Code to fight against hatred on the internet
· To
ban activities that promotes criminal intolerance
· To
ban political parties and organizations that promotes intolerance and hatred
· To
enforce and improve legislation against racism
· Integral
support to victims of hate crimes and their solidarity organizations
· To
create police unites specialize in fighting hate groups
· To
implement long term and wide actions plans against intolerance based on the
concept of prevention. Tolerance and Human Rights must be spread.
Madrid
November
12, 2012
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