The non-governmental organization Afroféminas has denounced the Canary content creator Rudy Ruymán for promoting a hate crime against migrants arriving to the islands.
The complaint has been filed with the State Attorney General's Office, in the Specialized Chamber Against Hate Crimes and Discrimination, for "a series of publications" that the content creator has made on his social networks and where he could encourage direct incitement to hatred and hostility towards the migrant population arriving to the Canary Islands.
Rudy Ruymán has more than 431,000 followers on his Instagram account from where he has disseminated these messages that the group classifies as a hate crime, included in article 510 of the Penal Code, with the aggravating circumstance of its dissemination through the internet.
Afroféminas classifies these speeches into "three main axes": Canary patriotism, rejection of migrants and the creation of the Canary Guanche Patrols group. The non-governmental association accuses these patrols of being "a paramilitary group" that intends to organize "surveillance and defense work" against the alleged "invasion and racial substitution", defended by Ruymán.
Thus, the complaint filed with the State Attorney General's Office includes different messages disseminated by the content creator. Among them, that "the Canary people are becoming extinct", "our neighborhoods and towns, in danger" or "enough of illegal immigrants".
Afroféminas points out that these publications try to mobilize the population of the islands, while "exacerbating fears and hostility" towards the people and children who arrived to the islands in small boats from the African continent. With episodes including "distortion" of a Senegalese festivity, the Great Magal.
The complaint not only includes these messages, but also accuses the influencer of disseminating "false and manipulated information" to promote "fear and rejection towards Muslim and migrant communities" and, "distort reality."
Along with the complaint, it requests the "immediate removal of Rudy Ruymán's publications" for their "clearly xenophobic content and incitement to hatred." In addition, they warn that the Guanche patrols "operate outside the legal framework" and may constitute "a violation of the powers reserved to the police authorities."