Last week, Pastor Soto verbally attacked Congresswoman Emilia Schneider outside the National Congress, in the Valparaíso region. As a result of this situation, the parliamentarian announced that she was evaluating taking actions with the Chamber to avoid “impunity” for these events.
Last week, Pastor Javier Soto rebuked Social Convergence (CS) deputy Emilia Schneider with a series of biblical quotes on the outskirts of the National Congress, Valparaíso region.
Using a speaker and a microphone, the self-styled religious leader verbally attacked the parliamentarian with words like “Mr. Schneider”, “filth” and “perversions”.
The situation was recorded in a video broadcast by the pastor himself through social networks. In it, it is evident how even a police officer tries to calm the preacher down.
“There are many times when he does the same thing”
It is not the first time that the same thing has happened. In October of this year, the deputy Schneider denounced through Twitter that the “Today Pastor Soto received me with some insults, shouting and a little bit of transphobia. How beautiful is the tolerance and respect of the conservative ultra right“.
Today Pastor Soto received me with some insults, shouting and a little bit of transphobia. How beautiful is the tolerance and respect of the conservative ultra-right, very similar to listening to the Republicans in Congress. Hello!
— Emilia Schneider (@emischneiderv) October 5, 2022
As a result of the verbal aggression, the congresswoman approached the preacher and rebuked him saying: “I am a deputy of the Republic, conchetumadre”. This is evident in the second ten of the audiovisual record.
In this regard, and after being consulted by BioBioChile, the parliamentarian declared not be the way to respondhowever, he explained, This type of situation does not happen for the first time..
“I did not remember the exact words, but yes, I went to face him very angry because there are many times when he does the same thing. I know that it is not the way, it was due to the exaltation of the moment“, confessed the parliamentarian.
Consider taking action
Thus, announced that it is evaluating taking different actions with the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies to curb the “impunity” of this type of “hate speech”.
“We are evaluating different actions with the Chamber so that he cannot continue with this act in total impunity. What we want to prevent is that, although today it is about verbal attacks, tomorrow we do not know (…) We have to prevent this subject and his followers from attacking anyone,” he revealed.
“This character has a long and well-known history of being a disseminator of discriminatory and violent hate speech towards women and sexual diversities. Several months ago, he installed himself on the outskirts of Congress to harass me and other parliamentarians as well.“he added.
Finally, The parliamentarian called on all political sectors to condemn this type of act and “that the ultra-right does not seek to cover up one of its own because what it does is spread violence and hatred,” he said.