At the end of August, comedian Ane Lindane reported harassment and death threats to the Ertzaintza on her social networks from different accounts operated by a user that Lindane herself later identified. The user threatened to murder and rape her. Despite presenting the evidence, from the Ertzaintza police station where she made the complaint, Zabalburu in Bilbao, they told her – as she explains – that “it would be difficult to identify the aggressor”, which motivated the comedian’s anger. and a clash on social networks with the police union Esan, which has even asked for a sanction against Lindane for his criticism of the Ertzaintza.
Through a statement, the police union criticizes that – in an interview conducted en el canal de YouTube Spanish Revolution– the comedian stated that “the Zabalburu police station is a fucking garbage dump and the sepoys who are there, you see that they are having everything going on, that they are half alcoholics, a super unprofessional group, while all the police officers are bad; But some are more professional than others.”
In the same letter, the police union demands that the Security Department of the Basque Government sanction the “serious statements made against the Ertzaintza”, that it “request a public rectification” and that the Department study “whatever actions may be taken in the future.” administrative or criminal with the purpose of guaranteeing the honor and good character of the Ertzaintza.”
A month later, the Security Department has responded to the Esan union, assuring that they will analyze the “rude and disqualifying expressions referred to Ertzaintza personnel” to see if they “constitute a crime or misdemeanor and, if applicable, to “that the pertinent measures be adopted to maintain the good name of the personnel who provide services in the Ertzaintza and the institution itself,” states the letter signed by the Security Department and dated September 24.
The document from the Department of Security concludes by saying: “In any case, the ertzainas, who take care of the security of citizens on a daily basis, have the support and recognition of the Department of Security and, more importantly, of the “the vast majority of Basque society, as reflected in sociological studies, which have been carried out for many years.”
From Esan they have assured this newspaper that they hope that the Security Department “does not keep the complaint in a drawer, and acts forcefully against all the lack of respect, insults and attacks that the members of the Ertzaintza and different Udaltzaingoas suffer or may suffer.” suffer”.
“Tired and fed up”
For her part, the comedian Ane Lindane has declared in an interview with elDiario.es/Euskadi that she feels “tired and fed up” with this situation. “I reported to the Ertzaintza of Zabalburu the person who had threatened to kill me and threatened to rape me and when I said it had been through social networks they laughed at me. They treated me like we were in a bar. I know that the complaint I filed will go nowhere, and that is why I made those statements. Now I see that instead of investigating my case, the Department is trying to whitewash the faces of ertzainas who are not doing their job,” says Lindane, who emphasizes that she does not want her case to be “individualized,” since violence against women women on social networks is something widespread.
They know that they go unpunished and the institutions themselves are their accomplices in this type of aggression.
Ane Lindane
It was she who investigated who was hiding behind the messages she had received on her social networks and assures that people who attack in this way do not use their anonymity, but rather the impunity and complicity of the institutions. “It is a mistake to think that they attack us thanks to anonymity, because when we discover who they are, they remain unpunished. The harasser himself said in one of his messages that he had never been reported for attacking anyone on social networks. They know that they go unpunished and the institutions themselves are their accomplices in this type of attacks,” denounces the comedian.
Asked if she has any type of information about the status of the complaint she made, she maintains that “most likely it is archived.” “I know who my attacker is, where he lives, his mother’s name, his sister’s name, I even have his school grades, but most likely they have not followed up on the complaint. They have not informed me of anything until now, and I do not trust that they will do so,” he concludes.
Source: www.eldiario.es
