At the end of August, actress Ane Lindane reported harassment and death threats against Ertzaintza on her social networks from different accounts managed by a user that Lindane herself later identified. The user threatened to kill and rape her. Despite the presentation of evidence, from the Ertzaintza police station where she filed a complaint, Zabalburu in Bilbao, she was told – as she explains – that “it would be difficult to identify the attacker”, which motivated the comedian’s anger and an altercation. social networks with the Esan police union, which even demanded a sanction against Lindane for her criticism of the Ertzaintza.
Through a statement, the police union criticizes the fact that – in an interview carried out on the Spanish Revolution YouTube channel – the comedian declared that “the Zabalburu police station is a fucking dump and the sepoys who are there you see that everything is happening.” who are half alcoholics, a super unprofessional group, while all the police 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 “requests a public rectification” and that the Department studies “whatever the actions that could be taken in the future. . “administrative or penal with the aim of guaranteeing the honor and good morals of the Ertzaintza.”
A month later, the Security Department responded to the Esan union, assuring that it would analyze the “rude and disqualifying expressions addressed to Ertzaintza staff” to see if they “constitute a crime or misdemeanor and, if so, “that relevant measures are adopted to maintain the reputation of the staff who provide services to the Ertzaintza and of the institution itself”, states the letter signed by the Security Department and dated September 24.
The Security Department document concludes by saying: “In any case, the ertzainas, who daily ensure the security of citizens, have the support and recognition of the Security Department and, more importantly, of the “vast majority of the Basque society, as reflected in sociological studies carried out over many years.
From Esan, they assured this newspaper that they hope that the Security Department “does not keep the complaint in a drawer, and acts forcefully against all the disrespect, insults and attacks that suffer or could suffer the members of the Ertzaintza and the various Udaltzaingoas”. .” suffer”.
“Tired and fed up”
For her part, actress Ane Lindane said in an interview with elDiario.es/Euskadi that she felt “tired and fed up” with this situation. “I reported to the Ertzaintza of Zabalburu the person who threatened to kill and rape me and when I said it was through social media, they laughed at me. They treated me like we were in a bar. I know that the complaint I filed will achieve nothing and that is why I made these statements. Now I see that instead of investigating my case, the ministry is trying to whitewash the faces of the ertzainas who are not doing their job,” says Lindane, who emphasizes that she does not want her case to be “individualized.” , because violence against women on social networks is something very widespread.
They know that they remain unpunished and the institutions themselves are their accomplices in this type of aggression.
Anne Lindane
She is the one who investigated who was hiding behind the messages she received on her social networks and ensures that people who attack in this way do not use their anonymity, but rather impunity and the complicity of institutions . “It is a mistake to think that they attack us thanks to anonymity, because when we find out who they are, they go unpunished. The harasser himself stated in one of his posts that he had never been reported for attacking anyone on social media. They know that they remain unpunished and the institutions themselves are their accomplices in this type of attack,” denounces the comedian.
When asked if she had any information on the status of the complaint she filed, she replied that “it is most likely 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 it is very likely that they did not follow up on the complaint. They haven’t informed me anything so far and I don’t think they will,” he concludes.
