{"id":53010,"date":"2023-09-11T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53010"},"modified":"2024-09-11T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T22:08:36","slug":"the-evil-message-of-podemos-on-the-murder-of-a-spanish-woman-by-the-russians-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/11\/the-evil-message-of-podemos-on-the-murder-of-a-spanish-woman-by-the-russians-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The evil message of Podemos on the murder of a Spanish woman by the Russians in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The far-left party, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government partner, has been exhibiting its harmony with the Kremlin for years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/24\/the-eu-accuses-russia-of-terrorism-this-is-how-the-spanish-parties-voted-in-this-resolution\/\">The EU accuses Russia of terrorism: this is how the Spanish parties voted in this resolution<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/the-most-pro-russian-political-parties-in-each-member-country-of-the-european-union\/\">The most pro-Russian political parties in each member country of the European Union<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The murder of a Spanish aid worker in a Russian attack<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we learned sad news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-muere-cooperante-espanola-ataque-ruso-convoy-ucrania-20230910110807.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the murder of the Spanish aid worker Emma Igual by the Russians in Ukraine<\/a>, when she was traveling in a vehicle that suffered a direct attack from the invading forces. In addition to her, Canadian volunteer Anthony \"Tonko\" Ihnat was also murdered. Emma Igual was director of the NGO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtorelief.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Road to Relief<\/a>, which announced today that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxDGFcGMmxl\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the aid workers' vehicle was attacked with an anti-tank guided missile<\/a>. <strong>The Russians knew very well who they were attacking<\/strong>, and they chose a civilian target, as they have been doing systematically since the beginning of this invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53179565902_cbc1f0d81f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The aid workers killed yesterday in the Russian attack in Ukraine: on the left the Spanish Emma Igual, and on the right the Canadian Anthony \"Tonko\" Ihnat (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxDGFcGMmxl\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Road to Relief<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>We can 'regret' the crime without citing the perpetrators of the murder<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the far-left party Podemos, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's communist partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PODEMOS\/status\/1700843543584010605\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a message about the murder of Emma Igual<\/a> in which he says the following: <em>\"<strong>We regret the death of the aid worker Emma Igual and her partner after the attack on a convoy in Ukraine. <\/strong> We wish the wounded a speedy recovery. I hope that progress will soon be made towards the end of a conflict that only brings desolation and misfortune. Peace is the only way.\"<\/em> Here you can see the capture of that message:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53179565907_2c20a770e6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This message has received an avalanche of criticism on Twitter. And the thing is that <strong>We can talk about the murder of Emma Igual without mentioning the murderers, who were the Russian invaders<\/strong>, and also takes the opportunity to introduce a cynical invocation to peace that that party has been using to <strong>make dirty work to Russia<\/strong>. Let us remember, in fact, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/the-most-pro-russian-political-parties-in-each-member-country-of-the-european-union\/\">Podemos is one of the parties that has been supporting Russia's interests the most in the European Parliament<\/a>, aligning itself with the position adopted with other communist parties in European countries.<\/p>\n<p><big>The favors that Podemos has been doing to Putin's Russia<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, and for its position against European sanctions on Russia for its illegal annexation of Crimea, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/lPQNc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the newspaper Russian pro-government Pravda called Podemos a \"pro-Russian party\"<\/a>. After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/theobjective.com\/espana\/2023-03-12\/podemos-armas-ucrania-defensa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Podemos opposed Spain's sending of military aid to Ukraine<\/a>, in an attempt to leave Ukrainians without resources to resist the invaders.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/cuatro-eurodiputados-espanoles-de-extrema-izquierda-no-condenan-la-invasion-de-ucrania\/\">three MEPs who ran for the Podemos lists refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a> in a vote in the European Parliament. In November 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/24\/the-eu-accuses-russia-of-terrorism-this-is-how-the-spanish-parties-voted-in-this-resolution\/\">when the European Parliament accused Russia of terrorism in Ukraine<\/a> (before the campaign of terror unleashed by Putin against the Ukrainian civilian population), <strong>none of the MEPs who presented by Podemos supported the resolution, and one of them voted against.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in February 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/18\/the-exhibition-of-affinity-with-the-kremlin-of-the-communist-half-of-the-government-of-spain\/\"> Podemos brought together seven other pro-Russian parties in Madrid at an event in which NATO was criticized<\/a>, <strong>blaming it for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong> Five of the seven pro-Russian parties invited by Podemos to that event did not even condemn that invasion. <strong>The event was used by Podemos to ask, once again, to stop military aid to Ukraine<\/strong>, a measure that would benefit Russia.<\/p>\n<p><big>Podemos does not want peace: it wants the surrender of Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Thus, <strong>it is no coincidence that Podemos omits all reference to the perpetrators of the murder of Emma Igual<\/strong>. It is part of a strategy of that party to favor the interests of the Kremlin, which is what Podemos has been doing for years. <strong>When that far-left party talks about \"peace\", what it is talking about is the surrender of Ukraine<\/strong> and its surrender to Russia. In this sense, Podemos's message is very reminiscent of Herri Batasuna's cynical messages when ETA committed a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Eduardo Parra \/ Europa Press.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far-left party, Pedro S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s government partner, has been exhibiting its harmony with the Kremlin for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[20104,20102,7841,20103,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-53010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-anthony-tonko-ihnat","tag-emma-igual","tag-podemos","tag-road-to-relief","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}