Vox before the Prosecutor's Office: Equality reports its electoral campaign posters in Granada for possible hate crime

The Ministry of Equality has requested the State Attorney General's Office to investigate some posters attributed to Vox that appeared in different parts of Granada for a possible hate crime. The document, signed by the Directorate General for Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination and against Racism, considers that the content of the campaign could violate article 510.1.a) of the Penal Code, related to the incitement to hatred.

The posters show the message: “Are you afraid to go home alone at night? Mass immigration has consequences. All parties except Vox want to bring thousands of immigrants. Only you pay the consequences. Vote Vox”. According to Igualdad, this content establishes “in a generalized way” a relationship between immigration and citizen insecurity, also linking the migrant population with women's fear of suffering aggressions.

In the document sent to the coordinating prosecutor for Hate Crimes and Discrimination, Miguel Ángel Aguilar García, the Ministry maintains that the message has an “openly stigmatizing, racist and potentially discriminatory” character. Furthermore, it warns that the dissemination of these messages on social networks such as Instagram and X has “notably” amplified their social impact and their dissemination capacity.

Igualdad considers “especially serious” that this type of messages are used in an electoral context. “Fear and insecurity are used as tools of collective targeting against the migrant population, contributing to deteriorate democratic coexistence and social cohesion”, states the official letter sent to the Prosecutor's Office. The ministerial department has also requested that the precautionary withdrawal of the posters and of the content disseminated on networks be studied.

Ministry sources have also confirmed that, after the posters were detected in Granada, similar messages have also been located in Almería, so they do not rule out that the campaign has spread to other Spanish cities. The Executive plans to send letters to the city councils where these advertisements appear to demand actions and prevent their dissemination.

For his part, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, defended the content of the campaign during an appearance in Almuñécar. “They are only against that poster because it says that the policies of the PP and PSOE have brought thousands of illegal immigrants”, he affirmed. Abascal went further by assuring that “that figure is not true” and added: “They have brought millions of illegal immigrants”.