Spain turning blind eye to racist attacks, says Amnesty

[Ferran]

What's that hypocrisy? If there are "racist" attacks (btw, is a train driver requesting to a group of Blacks to pay the ticket during the trip, a racist attack?) ignored are precisely those of immigrants against natives, not the other way around. Attacks which somettimes are not as civilized as one would expect even from the less valuable lifeform, and quite commonly have a component of ethnic hate (I'm still waiting for the day a newspaper publishes what kind of sweet words do the "Latin" Kings use during their aggressions, sexual too). But ok, let's focus on the train driver and forget the list of Spaniards who have been attacked for real, maybe someone has strong evidence for him being the reincarnation of Adolf...


Spain turning blind eye to racist attacks, says Amnesty

The report claims that racist attacks are ignored and the victims are invisible.

11 April 2008

MADRID - Racist attacks against foreigners in Spain are "ignored" and the victims are "invisible," Amnesty International charged on Thursday in a report.

The report claims to highlight the reluctance of the Spanish government and the country's judicial authorities to deal with racism.

According to the human rights group, more than 4,000 racist attacks occur in Spain each year although the vast majority go unreported, while those that result in complaints to the police - between 90 and 120 by the group's estimates - often fail to lead to convictions.

"Spain has no official registry [of racist crimes] so it is impossible to know the scale of the problem," Esteban Beltrán, the director of Amnesty International in Spain, said. "Unfortunately, attacks of this sort are not isolated incidents."

Beltrán noted that up to 15,000 Spaniards belong to racist organisations, while websites preaching racist violence have proliferated in recent years.

Coinciding with a sharp increase in immigration, Spanish attitudes toward foreigners have also hardened, with opinion polls showing that around a third of the native population are hostile toward immigrants, compared to eight percent in 1997.

About 0.7 percent believes racism to be a problem - a figure that in the view of human rights activists reflects a widespread reluctance by citizens and authorities to address the issue.

[El Pais / Expatica]



Source: Spain turning blind eye to racist attacks, says Amnesty - Expatica

[Kernunnos]

"About 0.7 percent believes racism to be a problem - a figure that in the view of human rights activists reflects a widespread reluctance by citizens and authorities to address the issue.
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the rest of the poll is taken seriously, this meager 0.7 % of spanish that thinks racism is a problem is interpreted in an orwellian way, supposing a wall of silence that is far from proven.

Occam's razor ridiculously reversed in order to make a political point: such organization need monsters and disasters to exist .. and make money.

Shameful