Spain, the murder of an 11-year-old unleashes a wave of racist fake news. Prosecutors: “Deliberate aim to stir up hatred against migrants”

A tragedy which becomes the pretext for a wave of racist hoaxes of far-right movements. As in the United Kingdom about fifteen days ago like this Spain after the ordeal of the murder of an 11 year old boy, Matthewstabbed on Sunday morning while playing football on the field of a sports centre in Mocejona small village of 5 thousand inhabitants near Toledoin Castile La Mancha. A fact that has shocked the Spain and for this reason it involved the highest institutions, including the government, with the prime minister Peter Sanchez who expressed closeness to the victim’s family and friends. The murderer is a 20 year old boyarrested after 24 hours by the Guardia Civil. He is Spanish, according to his family he has very serious mental problems. Also for this reason at the moment the motive that pushed the young man to fatally wound the boy while he was playing with some of his friends is not known. But the black wave of fabricated truths has mounted on social networks, falsehoods spread by various users with the object i foreign minors unaccompaniedimmediately pointed out as the cause of facts like this. For this reason, the Prosecutor’s Office will investigate the punishability profiles of these fake news spread, is the hypothesis of the magistrates, with the deliberate aim of arousing feelings of hatred, hostility, discrimination against those who in Spain are called with the acronym “menas”. A phenomenon self-fueled in the space of a few hours and which forced the prefect of Castile La Mancha, Miracle Tolonto “appeal to all those who have taken advantage of this misfortune humanas is the death of a child, for pour out all your hatred in social networks, trying to blame different people for skin color or religionto be human and to behave as such”. The spokesperson for the 11-year-old’s family, before the arrest of the murderer, had asked that no one be criminalized “because of their ethnicity, race, color, faith”. But the wave of messages with fake news continued to fill various far-right web channels where the news that the perpetrator of the stabbing of the child was a “Moor”, an Islamic, bounced around.

The issue of unaccompanied minors in Spain It has been a political issue for a long time and, one might say, propaganda ridden by the Spanish right especially in recent months. It has been a pitched battle For Vox and for its leader Santiago Abaskal who made it a totem for which he left the regional councils in which he governed with the Popular. The Sanchez government in fact he had asked the communities on the national territory to collaborate to welcome several dozen little boys landed without parentsThe neo-Francoists have confirmed their opposition to the bitter end, up to abandon government positions in local institutions. This retreat of Vox to trench positions is explained in part by the fact that Abascal’s party is being pressured by smaller movements emerging to its right, even more extremelike The party’s overwhich in the last European surprisingly elected 3 deputies including the leader Luis Perez Fernandez that everyone in Spain calls Alvisthe pseudonym he gave himself.

The social fire has flared up also and above all due to the effect of his posts: he has inflated his political strength thanks to his borderline skills as a blogger influencerhas 700 thousand followers, in the early hours after the death of little Mateo he took advantage of the (understandable) absence of certain information insistently, compulsively, with a river of posts, connecting the bloody incident in Mocejòn with the issue of migrants or other news stories passed off as being connected to the “menas“. “The news of every day – he writes in one of these posts – Another 16 year old boy seriously injured in the back by 5 unaccompanied minors on a street in San Blas-Canillejas”, a neighborhood of Madrid. An incredible, petty double scam: it has nothing to do with the 11-year-old boy who was stabbed, but rather, as he reconstructed The Countrythe story of Madrid was that of a fight between gangs of kids stopped by the police and returned to their parents. Pèrez went so far as to report an alleged quote from the villagers: “On August 5, 50 Africans arrived by bus. We are less than 5,000 people and we lived peacefully. Now there are rapes, robberies and the murder of a 10-year-old child”. The castle of lies collapsed today with the confession of the murderer: he is very Spanish, even in his name (Juan Perezparadoxically just like the surname of Alvise), which does not change by one millimeter the tragedy into which the victim’s family and the community of the small town have fallen. The boy, during the interrogation, told the investigators that he experienced the attack on little Mateo and his friends as if it had been committed from someone else“from the other me”, as if it were “in a video game“. The father says he has a 70 percent intellectual disability. A neighbor says he warned the municipality and the Guardia Civil that the boy had been becoming aggressive for some time. The true story of Mocejòn, in short, could be that of a social drama of a modest family from a provincial town that found itself without the help it needed.