The government delegate in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, has advocated education as a “fundamental tool” to combat hate crimes and has encouraged “redoubling efforts to build a fairer and more respectful society.”
The delegate expressed herself this way during the inauguration of the training day ‘Vulnerable groups within hate crimes’, recently organized by the Civil Guard at the headquarters of the Delegation, in which some twenty social entities from the region participated.
In his speech, Gómez de Diego pointed out that this type of crime is motivated by “prejudices and discrimination” towards people or groups due to their origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, among other characteristics, and warned that “they not only represent a direct attack on the victims, but also damage our coexistence”.
Thus, he has stressed the need to promote a culture of respect for diversity and non-discrimination, while highlighting the “great effort” that the State Security Forces and Bodies have been making in this matter.
In this regard, the delegate has valued the great contribution of the REDO Teams (Hate Crime Response Team), recently created by the Secretary of State for Security, “an innovative and unique operational structure in our environment to combat this type of crime.”
The speaker of the day was Lieutenant Colonel Laura Gómez Campo, head of the Area of Human Rights, Equality and Diversity of the Technical Cabinet of the General Directorate of the Civil Guard and, among other distinctions, has the Cross of Military and Aeronautical Merit, and the Cross of Police Merit.