The Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating the announcement that prohibited the entry of "gays" to a party in Torremolinos
La Malaga Provincial Prosecutor's Office investigates possible crimes in advertising disseminated in Instagram by the promoters of a party in Torremolinos which is presented as "luxury moroccan private club"in which they announced that entry was prohibited to"maricones".
He has also received a complaint from fifty LGTBIQ+ associations, which adds to at least one other Facua announced on Friday, a complaint filed by the city council Torremolinos before the National Police and for the mayoress, on a private basis, for hate crimes and slander against her.
Research Prosecution, still in its initial phase, must now determine whether there are indications of crime in advertising on social networks of an event, planned for next January 18 (although it lacked municipal authorization) under the name "Moroccan Luxury Club”. The announcement was posted on the Instagram account of Fatima Ino House, which is now private, and prohibited “fights, drugs, caps, flip-flops and faggots".
The promoter confirms his homophobia
The identity of the people behind this account, from which intimidating and insulting messages were sent against the company, is still unknown. Mayor of Torremolinos, Margaret of the Cid, as she herself has reported.
El promoter ratified in his intention to banning the entry of homosexuals and announced that if he could not do it in Torremolinos I would do it in Málaga. "There must be clean places", he said in statements to Malaga Today.
The associations' complaint has been signed by 47 organizations and presented to the Prosecution specialized hate crimes. The document states that these rules disseminated by the company through social networks, "sThere is an unquestionable and prohibited discrimination based on the sexual orientation, real or perceived, of people, which affects not only homosexual men, but can affect all people who are perceived as such.”, and remember that the right of admission is not absolute nor can it be based on a standard discriminatory.
The document states that advertising violates the dignity of LGTBIQ+ people not only for the mere fact of prohibiting entry to “maricones”, but also by putting homosexuality on the same level as fighting and drugs. The distribution of these rules through social networks increases the public profile of the poster and its discriminatory content, according to the complaint, signed by the lawyer and activist Charo alises.
The complaint highlights the “social alarm" caused by the announcement that has affected "seriously harm people LGTBIQ +, since it represents a sign of their lives as unworthy and pernicious".
Torremolinos, a historically LGTBIQ+ territory
The event was scheduled for January 18 in a room hitherto unused in the Cross Street called so far Happy TheatreUnder a roof of just 50 square meters there is a basement that had been under preparation for several weeks to host the event, according to an employee of a nearby office who explained to this newspaper.
Torremolinos It is a municipality of particular significance for the community. LGTBIQ +, which has one of its main tourist destinations here, a powerful festival of Pride and deep historical roots, with milestones in the fight for sexual freedom such as the Begoña Passage, which Franco's regime put an end to with a brutal raid in 1971.
Margaret of the Cid, mayor of Torremolinos (PP), sounded the alarm on Thursday evening, also on Instagram: “Hate and homophobia have no place here and we will do everything in our power to ban this event and any club activity that encourages this regrettable attitude. The only ones who are left out are them.".
