The case of the child murdered in Mocej\u00f3n last weekend is having surreal repercussions on social media.<\/p>\n
In the last few hours I have seen left-wing and right-wing extremists insulting the murdered man's cousin<\/strong> who has acted as a spokesman for the family after the tragic crime (just look at the regrettable responses you can read in this thread posted by COPE<\/a> on Twitter). Some insult him because the young man has been in Africa showing the work of Catholic missionaries<\/strong>, and simply because he helped Africans they consider him guilty of the crime (I wonder what one thing has to do with the other). And others insult him for being Catholic<\/strong>, that is, out of pure and hard hatred against Christianity in all its forms.<\/p>\n It's sad that in the face of such a horrendous crime, some people are unable to put aside their fanaticism for even a minute.<\/strong> Personally, I've started to pass out blocks to one another, because I don't want to have the slightest contact with the scum that does something like this to the relative of a murdered child. The farther away from the fanatics, those who act without showing even the slightest humanity, the better.<\/strong> It's something that I'm very clear about.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the insults to the murdered man's cousin are not the only phenomenon that has cast a shadow over an already sinister event. Rumors have been circulating for hours about the confessed murderer:<\/strong> some claim that he was Romanian or of Romanian origin, others say that his parents were Turkish, some claim that he was North African, and I have also seen some angry leftists who feel that they are presenting him as an intellectually disabled person just because he is Spanish. There is no data to support these claims,<\/strong> but their authors do not care.<\/p>\n What we know right now, as I pointed out yesterday<\/a>, is that the killer is Spanish and his paternal family's last name is P\u00e9rez<\/a>, something that does not fit with the version that he is Romanian, Turkish or Maghreb. The question that comes to mind is: Who makes up these things and for what purpose?<\/strong> Because someone, at some point, must have made up the data that others re-disseminate without subjecting it to even the slightest verification.<\/p>\n As you know, I have been denouncing the effects that illegal and massive immigration has on security, but based on data and statistics, not on hoaxes. What we are seeing around the Mocej\u00f3n crime is a clear disinformation campaign.<\/strong> As in all campaigns of this type, those who help spread it do so, in the vast majority of cases, because these hoaxes best reflect their desires or their way of thinking. Some do not talk about a crime if they believe it was committed by a foreigner, and others do not accept that it could have been committed by a Spaniard.<\/strong> But in both cases, the victims are just as dead and seem to be the least important thing, which is very sad.<\/p>\n I think it's time to stop confusing statistics with individual reality. The fact that statistically there is a higher incidence of crime among people of certain nationalities does not mean that all people of that origin are criminals, nor that we should rule out the possibility that a Spaniard could be the perpetrator of a crime. I find it incredible to have to explain these things, but we have reached this level of absurdity in Spain<\/strong>, with a political debate that is based less and less on rational arguments and more and more on prejudices.<\/p>\n
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