“Bitches, come out of your burrows like rabbits, you are nymphomaniac whores, I promise you that you are all going to fuck in the capea.
Let's go Ahuja!”, a young man shouts from a window, and immediately afterwards the blinds of the facade begin to rise, and dozens of boys begin to shout and hit.
This terrible scene was experienced last Sunday at the Elías Ahuja male college, attached to the Complutense University of Madrid, and the insults hurled by the men, residents of this center, were hurled at the young women who live at the Santa Mónica college , female, located just opposite.
The video has spread like wildfire on social networks.
The school has apologized, expressed its condemnation and explained, in a statement, that the internal regime provides for "in serious cases, like this one", expulsion.
The director of the center has reported that there is an expelled student.
This is the young man who started the action and the school is investigating which other students are involved.
The deputy director of Elías Ahuja, Álvaro Nieto, explained to this newspaper that the school's management met on Monday and decided to expel the group's leader.
They talked to his parents and gave him 24 hours to find another place to stay.
According to him, the intention is that the measure be permanent, but it is not automatic.
That is to say, now a process is opened in which the student must be heard.
A file is opened and the student has 15 days to present allegations.
Nieto has stressed that the center has 174 schoolchildren and that not all of them participated in the verbal aggression.
Since there are cameras in the corridors, they are investigating which students moved to the area of the school that faces Santa Monica.
The capea, which was to be held this month, has been suspended.
The vice-chancellor of students of the Complutense, Rosa de Lafuente, has moved this Thursday to the center, where she has met with the management, and has informed this newspaper that they will open a reserved investigation.
This has been confirmed by the university's own Twitter account, where it has been reported that they are opening an "informative file" and will work with "the other universities to apply sanctions to the students involved."
De Lafuente added that the file can lead to sanctions, including expulsion from the university, but this measure can only be applied to Complutense students, who are a minority in this accommodation, despite having priority enrollment.
However, the Vice Chancellor has no doubt that the rest of the public and private universities will make decisions along the same lines.
Until this morning
during her meeting with the press, she had not seen the video.
She has stressed that the investigation they are going to carry out will not be "punctual and individual", but will go back in time.
The Council of University Colleges of Spain, an association that represents 115 institutions and 17,000 university students, has issued a statement in which it condemns "unanimously and unequivocally this type of attitude" and considers the images "unacceptable and inappropriate of university students and democratic citizens.
It also states that the acts are not representative of the group of residence halls and that they support "without reservation all measures, both educational and disciplinary, that can contribute to eradicating this type of behavior and achieving gender equality in the university, as well as in all social spheres.
Sánchez calls for a “unitary response”
The scene has aroused the indignation and condemnation of hundreds of people on the networks.
Even the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has spoken.
“We cannot tolerate these behaviors that generate hatred and attack women.
It is especially painful to see that the protagonists are young people.
Not one step back.
Equality policies are necessary.
Enough of machismo!”, he tweeted this Thursday.
Upon his arrival in Prague, at the summit of the European Political Community, Sánchez called for a "broad, unitary response and common rejection."
"It is important that all political parties say no to all sexist behavior," he continued.
Politicians of different formations have condemned the events.
The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero (Podemos), stated: "It shows that we need comprehensive sexual education so that all children, adolescents in our country, learn that treating well is good and treating badly is bad, learn about the culture of consent and that we do not continue to reinforce a culture of rape and sexual terror that places women as sexual objects.
And she added: “It is precisely the most obvious sign that sexual education is lacking in this country and it is also necessary for the institutions to stop legitimizing sexist discourses that deny violence and that deny equal rights for women” .
The Minister of the Presidency, the socialist Félix Bolaños,
has described the scene as "terrible" in an interview on Cadena Ser and has also insisted on equality policies, as has the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats (Catalunya en Comú), who has explained on Twitter that his department is "in contact with the university to coordinate the response to events that should not be repeated".
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP), has called the attitude of young people "degrading, sexist and disgusting".
We cannot tolerate these behaviors that generate hatred and attack women.
It is especially painful to see that the protagonists are young people.
Not one step back.
Equality policies are necessary.
Enough of machismo!
https://t.co/XHqHIGlq2A
– Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) October 6, 2022
In addition to these images, a text has also spread on social networks, dated in the year 2000, written in the Elías Ahuja magazine by the former president of the Popular Party Pablo Casado, who lived in the college during his time as a law student .
In the text, in a sarcastic tone, the former popular president draws a generic portrait of the Ahuja schoolboy, whom he humorously refers to as
Lupus Ahujus Hispanorum.
Sexist comments abound in the text.
“Among their most coveted prey are the she-wolves.
Although if there is a shortage of these, he willingly resorts to other animal species such as sows, foxes, chickens...”, wrote Casado, who also referred to the schoolboy as “one of the most promiscuous and lascivious of the Iberian Peninsula, which It can represent a real danger to the integrity of any female of the animal kingdom that is in a period of sexual maturity.”
The director of the residence hall, Manuel García Artiga, spoke to the media this Thursday.
"We absolutely, radically, totally condemn these expressions, they go totally against the values of the college, unacceptable and inexplicable," he said on Cadena Ser. According to his story, the night watchman and he himself went "to stop him" in when they heard what was happening, but they didn't have time to get there.
"We weren't going to allow it at all and that's where we went," he said.
"We are going to forcefully apply the disciplinary regime of the residence hall", he assured.
García Artiga has also said that, in addition to applying the disciplinary regime, they have decided that the participants in the harassment of the students from the school next door must "write a public letter to the schoolgirls and the management" of the center "apologizing".
“Thirdly, we have thought of organizing a kind of series of conferences where professionals come to talk to them about this issue, to make them aware of how their way of acting should be in a Western democratic Spanish society.
And fourthly, we have a lot of volunteering here, but all those involved are going to volunteer to help those people or groups that are suffering in Madrid”, continued the director, in line with the statement published on their networks this Wednesday. social.
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The director of the center has also explained that it was common for members of the school to look out of the windows and make animal sounds, something that, as he has assured, they "also" persecute.
He has affirmed that it is "a way they have of expressing themselves, but in no way referring to girls", in reference to the students of the female college.
The Complutense University, the largest in Spain, reminds through its communication department that the Elías Ahuja is not its own school, but attached to the institution.
That is to say, that it is within its university city —after signing an agreement for the use of facilities and the assumption of basic rules of coexistence—, but it manages itself.
The campus regrets the facts.
The University Coexistence Law —the first in history, approved last February— seeks to raise awareness of gender equality and provides for expulsion from campus in the event of harassment.
In the hazing, which is less and less and is prohibited, but which still takes place every September, tests with sexual overtones are not uncommon, such as going out dressed as chickens on the street with a sign that says “hatched me”.
On occasion, nudist auctions have been organized;
one held in 2017 on the campus of the University of León jumped into the media.
The students paid to buy "slaves", the novices, who once sold would take their notes, make photocopies or clean the house for them.
The bidding ended with two girls in thongs and two boys completely naked.