What is behind spate of racist attacks in Spain?s Murcia?

VOX won four seats in the autonomous elections of 2019, but in June, the party asked to revoke the membership of three of its deputies, reported El País newspaper.“There is the creation of a discourse based on constant fear, they pose immigrants as ‘threat’ that they are taking our jobs, using our social security, that they are a security issue,” Guirado said, lamenting the absence of strong condemnation from national political institutions.“These aren’t isolated cases, this is what we are trying to tell them.”Sabah Yacoubi, who heads the Association of Morrocan Migrant Workers (ATIM) in Murcia, also criticised the lack of extensive national coverage on the recent racist attacks, as well as the absence of a public statement from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. He suggests that this places news outlets at a disadvantage when competing with the regular influx of fake news, “whilst people are deconstructing these fake news and racist narratives, the far-right has produced three more headlines”.Santana agreed that a significant share of Spanish media still accommodates some of VOX’s political views and expressed fears this will help legitimise some of the party’s discourse, if left unchallenged.“It seems we are running in that direction.”Al Jazeera reached out to VOX and Murcia’s regional assembly for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of the publication.Madrid has returned about half of the 6,000 people who arrived, as the Ceuta enclave’s leader described an ‘invasion’.More than 8,000 people climbed around border fences and swam from Morocco to the Spanish territory.Right-wing opposition accuses leftist PM of caving in to pressure from separatist parties, which back the government.Follow Al Jazeera English: