Several graffiti with racist and neo-Nazi messages have appeared in the night and early morning of this Wednesday in the solidarity associations of Burgos that assist migrants and . Hate messages have been drawn on walls, stained glass windows and around the headquarters of Accem Burgos, Burgos Acoge, Atalaya Multicultural and the Catholic Cáritas, for whom . “More Valencia and less Nigeria”, “Puto Moro” or “Spaniards First”, the authors wrote along with swastikas and Nazi symbols. The vandalism comes once its municipal partner backed down on the proposal to eliminate the 119,000 euros distributed among those NGOs that help migrants.
The offensive graffiti has been distributed throughout the premises where these solidarity groups work, which subsist through private and public contributions, such as those provided by the Burgos City Council. Accem Burgos, Burgos Acoge, Atalaya Multicultural and Cáritas have suffered these xenophobic attacks between Tuesday night and this Wednesday without the authorship of these offensive proclamations being established at the moment.
The controversy in Burgos comes after weeks of confrontation with the corporation’s project, to suppress aid to these organizations except for Cáritas, who rejected such funds in support of the three entities that would lose those resources. The business, media and social mobilization became a demonstration of 5,000 people in the Plaza Mayor of Burgos. He got the mayor, Cristina Ayala (PP), to decide to maintain the allocation agreed upon last year, €119,000 between them.
Ayala attributed this measure to pressure from Vox to agree on the Budgets and when he withdrew the plan he insisted that it was an initiative of the extreme right. This party, after the PP’s turn, demanded that Youth or Childhood areas be subsidized with the same amount. This Tuesday’s vote in the Finance Commission reflected Vox’s distancing, as it positioned itself against because its demands were not included, so that the PP is left alone in the face of the accounts that will be submitted to the local plenary session on Friday. . The PSOE has offered to recover, among other keys, some games eliminated from Historical Memory.
The councilor has assumed this situation of inferiority and has stated these days that if she is left without the support of her municipal partner she will submit the budgets to a vote of confidence. Another option is to extend current accounts.
