Violators of the pack to prison
The Provincial Court of Navarre decreed a few hours ago the bail € 6,000 for members of "La Manada". Its five members who two months ago were sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse of the young woman from Madrid in the Sanfermines de 2016, will be released.
In a decision that demonstrates the level of machismo that prevails in the Spanish judicial system, This new action is an attack on the millions of women who won the streets shouting No es No. Not to mention the violence that continues to be exercised on the victim.
When the sentence that denied the rape of the young woman from 18 years we did not hesitate to go out to the streets and tell her Sister I believe you. But justice, who is blind and deaf to all our claims, once again turns his back on us.
Already the sentence of only nine years in prison was reprehensible, especially for denying the violence suffered by the victim and ignoring the rape. But for the court judges, to whom it was not enough to see the video that the aggressors themselves filmed abusing the victim, nor did their story seem enough, today they violate her again.
And as if everything were not enough, They are responsible for disseminating the precautionary measures that must be complied with. Shamefully, they only force them to appear on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday in the court corresponding to their place of residence and they are prohibited from entering the Community of Madrid. Members of La Manada are not abusers, they are rapists. Thus, not only should they not enter Madrid, they must be in prison. Four of the five members have a history of abuse and for the judges it is enough just that they do not enter Madrid. For us the only place they can enter is the prison. And that we will go out to demand.
further, We will not stop fighting until this patriarchal justice reverses the sentence. The Superior Court must convict La Manada of rape. A group of five men locks up a young woman in an alley, they abuse her, they film her and that is not enough violence. We reject this retrograde and misogynistic view.
In a state with a regime in total decomposition, you can't expect anything from judges addicted to power. The justice that frees La Manada is the same that sent Urdangarin to a luxury prison, the one who still doesn't know who M is. Rajoy. It is the one that keeps political prisoners and forces artists to go into exile so as not to be put in prison for singing against the King.
In capitalist democracies, powers are formally separated. Only formally, because justice, in particular the Spanish, acts defending the economic interests of the powerful and following the orders of the power in power. More than as an independent justice, it acts as the party of justice.
This action of the Justice Party shows once again the exhaustion of the parliamentary monarchical regime and the Constitution of '78, dyed by Francoism. You have to make background changes: judges must be elected by popular vote, your charges must be revocable, Women's organizations must have direct interference in cases that affect us and trials by jury must be applied in all cases..
If justice is in charge of violating us and turning a deaf ear, we will fill the streets again. With the same force that we made a historic strike on March 8, we must leave in an organized manner throughout the Spanish state to repudiate this decision. Today we gave a sample in many squares throughout the State. But we must go for more, we must coordinate a great national action that demands today more than ever Enough of Patriarchal Justice! Rapists to prison!