The equal treatment law will criminalize antigypsyism

Congress has agreed that the bill for equal treatment and non-discrimination amend the Criminal Code so that anti-Gypsyism is recognized as a specific hate crime. The Equality Commission has approved this proposal with 30 votes in favor and five abstentions.

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PSOE, Ciudadanos and United We Can have ratified an amendment to the original norm. In the text, antigypsyism is included as a specific reason to charge a hate crime, which will carry a prison sentence of one to four years and a fine of six to twelve months. For this, these parties propose the modification of article 22 and 510 of the Penal Code.

"The law adapts to the circumstances we currently have", defended the Deputy for Citizens Sara Giménez, who also highlighted that this regulation provides "some tools that are totally necessary to provide an effective response to the fight against discrimination In our country''.

The socialist deputy Beatriz Carrillo has pointed out that since it was agreed to admit the bill for processing, about a year ago, "they have worked tirelessly" so that the future norm guarantees the rights of people who suffer discrimination, reports Eph.

The deputy of United We Can who has spoken in the commission, Ismael Cortés, has thanked the work of his colleagues Giménez and Carrillo for their work for the "recognition of the rights of the Roma people" and "the effort of dialogue they have made until the last moment to achieve the law in its best version”.

Today, a historic measure is approved in the Equality Commission of Congress: for the first time, anti-Gypsyism will be included as a hate crime in the Penal Code after almost 600 years of anti-Gypsy discrimination.

Thank you @Ismael_CortesG for all your work. Opera Rome.

— Ione Belarra (@ionebelarra) April 27, 2022

The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has celebrated this decision calling it a "historic measure". "For the first time, anti-Gypsyism will be included as a hate crime in the Penal Code after almost 600 years of anti-Gypsy discrimination," Belarra pointed out on her Twitter profile.