The Secretary General of the Andalusian PSOE (PSOE-A), Juan Espadashas vindicated this Monday the memory of the former deputy mayor of the Seville City Council Alberto Jimenez-Becerril (PP) and his wife, Ascension Garcia Ortizwhen it is 25 years since both were murdered at the hands of AND in the Seville capital. He has done so through a comment on social networks that has sparked controversy, since the vast majority of users have reminded him of his party’s pacts with the heirs of the murderers whom he honors today.
Juan Espadas has dedicated a memory to the murdered couple both in a note on his social media account and, later, to questions from journalists in an attention to media in La Rinconada (Seville) on the occasion of a meeting with Andalusian performing arts and music associations. However, it is enough to take a look at what users respond to him, who accuse him of having “little shame»for launching this type of message while the Government of Pedro Sánchez remains in power thanks, to a large extent, to his pacts with Bildu.
25 years now without Ascen and Alberto. On January 30, his assassination at the hands of ETA shook Seville and our entire country.
His memory remains intact as an example of public servants who work for coexistence as the only way to build the future. All my love to your family.
— Juan Espadas Eyebrows (@_JuanEspadas) January 30, 2023
From the aforementioned social network, the leader of the PSOE-A has stressed that said “murder at the hands of ETA shook Seville and our entire country”, and has claimed that the “memory” of Alberto Jiménez-Becerril and Ascension García Ortiz “It continues intact as an example of public servants who work for coexistence as the only way to build the future.”
“Now your party agrees with whoever was killed and brings them closer to the prisons around them, miserable, have you also gone to algeciras ?” says one user. «And you compi agreeing with the sync of those who killed them. But you don’t say anything about that, huh,” says another. “But little shame, if your party sleeps with their murderers…”, says another comment. And so, practically all the messages.
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Espadas has reaffirmed this tribute in his attention to the media in La Rinconada and has recalled that, as mayor of Seville and having been honorary president of the foundation that recalls the murdered couple, participated “in first person” in the traditional acts of homage that are celebrated every year on these dates since that crime was committed.
As from the aforementioned social network, the leader of the PSOE-A has sent a message of “love” to the family of these victims of AND“especially to his mother, his sister and his children”, and has defended that, since the aforementioned foundation, “no one has the slightest doubt that the memory of that murder by the terrorist group ETA has remained intact, which, Without a doubt, it meant a before and after in the city of Seville and that, in some way, now also has to serve as a meeting point for the permanent search for coexistence based on mutual respect and through dialogue to consolidate and cement it. », concluded Juan Espadas.
