Madrid (EFE).- On July 22, 2011, two attacks rocked Norway, one in Oslo, where a bomb killed eight people, and another in Utøya, where an ultra-rightist murdered 69 people. This Saturday marks the European Day for Victims of Hate Crimes to remember these events and ask for greater protection for all victims.
In a manifesto, the Movement Against Intolerance and other associations demand that Spanish institutions enact a Protection Law for Victims of Hate Crimes in the face of the “‘tsunami’ of intolerance that threatens the world with a return to times of persecution and murder.”
The movement argues the “need” for this law and the “importance of joint work between society and institutions to make the victims of criminal intolerance visible and dignify their memory.”
With different acts, such as lighting emblematic places in blue, social organizations not only want to show the existence of victims of criminal intolerance, but also to call “for the necessary commitment of institutions, civil society and citizens to address a problem that attacks people’s dignity”.
Remember that the attacks in Norway were not a single massacre for this reason, as demonstrated by previous and subsequent attacks such as in Paris, Madrid, Orlando, New Zealand or Nigeria.
Under the slogan “Tolerance turns off hate”, the movement has launched a campaign in recent days to symbolically turn on the “light of tolerance against hate, with a message of unity against intolerance”.