Spain Socialists file complaint over ‘lynching’ of PM dummy
MADRID—Spain’s ruling Socialists have filed a complaint over the “lynching” of a dummy of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a far-right rally on New Year’s Eve.
The complaint filed with prosecutors seeks “those responsible for making the dummy … and those who led the lynching efforts.”
Right-wing demonstrators have been protesting for weeks against Sanchez for agreeing to a controversial law that granted amnesty to Catalan separatists who engaged in a failed 2017 independence bid.
Sanchez won the support of the separatists who backed his return to power.
During one New Year’s Eve, a suited dummy representing the prime minister was strung up from a traffic light and beaten, punched and kicked by demonstrators as they chanted antiSanchez slogans.
Civil war
Protesters also went “one step further” with historical language such as “Happy 1936,” a reference to the start of Spain’s civil war when a military pustch against the Socialist-led Republican government sparked a three-year conflict and nearly four decades of dictatorship under Francisco Franco until 1975. —AFP
