The head judge of Instruction 5 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Luz Alicia Casañas, has decreed the free dismissal of the proceedings opened in 2020 in her court against the socialist militant Agoney Reyes and against the Tenerife columnist Chema Tante for threats to the defected councilor from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Evelyn Alonso. After imputing such a crime to both last August, the judge has ended up attending the resources of her lawyers and has opted for the definitive file. Only the case against a third person remains open, a woman with reduced mental faculties, who sent threatening messages to Alonso through private messages.
The judge has now entered to analyze the background and the context of both the messages of Agoney Reyes, to which the press related to the Canary Coalition immediately linked with the socialist spokesperson in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, Patricia Hernández, and those of Chema Tante, who publishes her columns on the website La Casa de mi Tía. In the first case and estimating the appeal of Reyes’ lawyer, he has now understood, more than a year after opening proceedings, that the phrase “has to protect his son well. At least 2,000 euros a month in his protection” It must be understood in the context of “a conversation between users related to the safety of the complainant”, which in his view “cannot, considering the context in which they take place, be held with certainty that it has that threatening purpose, as it could be of the issuance of a mere value judgment ”.
Regarding the article by Chema Tante entitled “Cuchillo pa’tu pescuezo, Evelyn Alonso. Lazy, glasses and you recognize it ”, the judge now admits that the expression knife for your neck is“ a typical expression of Venezuela that refers to embarrassing situations in which a person is placed for not acting diligently, the threatening purpose of the expression is blurred ”. This is how the writer explains it in the first paragraph of his article, which is this: “As we share – luckily, more than anything – the circumstance of having lived in beloved Venezuela, title in Creole, so that this is clearer to you. article that I dedicate to you, Evelyn Alonso. Because I’m afraid that addressing you in Canary is time wasted. However, allow me to clarify to those who ignore it that the “knife for your neck” does not mean that you want anything violent to happen to you, but that in Bolivarian lands that expression is dedicated to who with as much simplification as you demonstrate is placed in embarrassing situations. And that glasses and loose are qualifiers that the brave people assign to those who do nonsense with laziness. A meme that works little. And I do not have to apologize for the way I point, because you are the one who confesses it ”.
However, the author has been charged for more than a year.
Although the one who has suffered the most attacks from the press and radio related to the Canary Coalition has been Agoney Reyes, who was immediately linked with former mayor Patricia Hernández for having launched his message just after it was known that the defected councilor would support the motion of censure that finally returned the Canarian Coalition to power in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council.
Columnist Francisco Pomares, a two-time candidate for the Canary Islands Coalition for the RTVC Control Board, wrote that “Agoney is a threat to a six-year-old child – it doesn’t even cross my head that he might think about fulfilling it. , or that she wished that others would comply – designed above all to intimidate her mother, to let her know that her decision to support the motion of no confidence against Mayor Patricia Hernández could cost her dearly ”and that“ what she wanted by threatening a The mother using her son was to join the collective lynching to which Evelyn Alonso was subjected to force her to change her mind ”.
These threats, already archived, and other messages of political criticism launched on social networks by the opposition served the Local Police to prepare a report on which the Security department, led by the defected councilor herself, was based to decide to provide it with a permanent protection escort that costs the council 10,000 euros per month.
