MADRID | A viral video showing young students from a Madrid university residence launching a torrent of macho and sexual insults at the girls’ residence opposite scandalized Spain on Thursday, causing even the Prime Minister to react.
“Sluts, come out of your burrows like rabbits, you are nympho whores, I promise you that you will all (get) fucked”: on this video of about thirty seconds, we hear the insults pronounced very distinctly by a male voice from a building after dark.
This young man then shouts “Allez Ahuja” (the name of the Elias Ahuja residence hall). In a perfectly synchronized movement, dozens of blinds in the building then open, revealing several silhouettes at each window that begin to howl animal sounds.
The video was filmed from the student residence opposite, the Colegio Mayor Santa Mónica, occupied by girls.
Having gone viral on social networks, where it caused a scandal after its publication overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, this video reacted to Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
“We cannot tolerate such behavior which generates hatred and harms women. (…) Enough machismo!”, he said on Twitter.
Asked about this affair in Prague, where he is taking part in the summit of EU leaders and their continental counterparts, Mr. Sanchez then launched an “appeal to all political parties and the media (…) so that we address a unitary response (…) of rejection of this macho, inexplicable, unjustified and absolutely repugnant behavior”.
“Sex education classes are what the students of this residence need,” said Minister for Equality Irene Montero, denouncing the “culture of rape and sexual terror which makes women sex objects.
The management of the Colegio Mayor Elias Ahuja hastened to condemn the “unacceptable expressions uttered by a group of residents” and to present its “public apologies to the management as well as to the students of the Santa Mónica residence”, before announcing the expulsion of several students involved.
Opened in 1969, this residence is located on the campus of the prestigious Complutense University of Madrid. A room there costs about 1,100 euros per month. The former number one of the Popular Party (PP), the main formation of the right-wing opposition, Pablo Casado was one of his residents during his studies.