Popular Party website drops game featuring candidate wiping out illegal immigrants

Alert DateNovember 18, 2010 Country: Spain Address: Cataluña General Type: Racist discourse, Discrimination, Institutional discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Media, Internet, Political discourse -parties - orgs Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Internet
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Spain’s opposition People’s Party has been forced to remove a videogame from its website that showed its main candidate at regional elections in Catalonia destroying illegal immigrants.

The game’s removal comes as the candidate, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, and others attempt to turn the 28 November vote into the first election in Spain in which immigration has played a major role.

The video, in which Sánchez-Camacho appears as a Lara Croft-style character who wipes out immigrants jumping from helicopters, was placed on the conservative party’s campaign website yesterday.

It provoked outrage and was taken down. People’s party officials claimed its designers had not followed instructions.

Source:

http://www.spainreview.net/index.php/2010/11/18/peoples-party-website-drops-game-featuring-candidate-wiping-out-illegal-immigrants/