Editorial: El Español

• PSOE lawyers report violent actions on December 31st in front of their headquarters as constituting up to six offenses, including threats, insults, and hate crimes.
• PSOE supports its complaint with previous convictions for attacks on Vox and Santiago Abascal for threat and hate crimes.
• The thesis that socialist ideas are persecuted in Spain is questioned, given the influence of the PSOE in the democratic history of the country.
• Rejection of Sánchez's policies and pacts is considered legitimate political criticism.
• The conversion of legitimate protest into harassment and insult is alarming, evoking the lynch mobs of the French Revolution and the October Revolution.
• Increasing minority protests do not represent all citizens, but their marginality requires Spanish political parties to disapprove of Vox unless it condemns these actions.

Conclusion: Physical violence often follows the trivialization of symbolic violence. It is the responsibility of parties, courts, and citizens to prevent this from happening in democratic Spain.

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