The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has asserted this Sunday that the victims of abuse in the Church “they can’t stay silent” and has stressed that it is “time to repair” his pain and “prevent it from happening again”.
This was expressed by Sánchez in a tweet in response to the writer Alejandro Palomas, a victim of abuse, who has celebrated the initiative that the PSOE will present this week in Congress so that the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, leads the investigation of the abuses in the Church backed by an independent commission, according to what ‘El País’ has advanced and parliamentary sources have confirmed to Europa Press.
Sánchez has reiterated to Palomas his “commitment” so that the abuses committed within the Church “do not go unpunished” and has given him “thanks” for his “voice, one of the many that have paved the way”.
The president had already talked with the writer about setting up an investigative commission on the abuses at a meeting they held last Thursday after the author denounced the abuses he himself suffered from a religious when he was a minor.
For this reason, before the news of the initiative that the PSOE will present, Palomas has applauded that “64 hours later” of the meeting “it dawns with what was promised”.
“The echo of many small voices is, added together, an earthquake. Let’s not forget it,” the author wrote on his Twitter profile, collected by Europa Press, to conclude with “today is a great day, Pedro Sánchez.”