Live lynching of a lesbian woman

Dolores Vázquez is transferred to the courts by agents of the Civil Guard.santiago camacho

If we believed that lynching was an archaic reality that can still perplex us in great movies like

but never close to us, we were wrong.

Lynched, yes, lynched has been Samuel Luiz, a nursing assistant who has been caring for the sick in his honorable and short adult life, and who has been kicked and beaten to death by a maddened mob of boys his age.

But there are lynchings that do not take place with blood, or with Marlon Brando, or with the sad consolation of a splendid mobilization against homophobia, or even with a Gregory Peck on defense as in

It is the one suffered by Dolores Vázquez, convicted of the murder of the young Rocío Wanninkhof and released four years after the crime, after the real culprit, the Englishman Tony Alexander King, preyed on another girl with a similar profile, Sonia Carabantes, thanks to that was on the loose while the mass was appeased, satiated and reassured.

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• Dolores Vázquez and the sin of looking like a villain

Mrs. Vázquez had the

of being a lesbian, cold, masculine, calculating, fond of karate and a thousand idiocies that a good number of journalists emphasized ad nauseam in a popular and media lynching that the masses accompanied the cry of “murderer, murderer! ! " every time she went in or out of either side. Partner or ex-partner of Rocío's mother, what does it matter, in any case she had been and continued to be close, collaborated in her upbringing and mourned her crime. It is told by the documentary

in which Tània Balló places us before a narrow and black mirror to see the society that we are capable of being (simple, virulent, cruel, righteous, heartless), and a press that arrogates to itself the ability to judge on sets turned into courts.

Ángel Acebes, who was Minister of the Interior of the PP, even said in parliament that Vázquez gave the type: "He seemed to meet the most plausible criminal profile considered."

In the heat of this popular and media lynching, the jury stretched its thumb to the ground and sentenced Dolores Vázquez without proof while she warned of a truth like a temple: “Look for the guilty.

They are out there ”.

So it was. Just as the mass had satiated his low instincts, King once again satiated his murderous appetite with the young Sonia Carabantes, a victim not only of him, but of that lynching that had blinded the mob and the authorities. Someone owes his family an apology. Someone owes Mrs. Vazquez an apology. And someone owes an apology to an LGTBI collective that, as we see, has a thousand and one ways to suffer a lynching.