Activist says "Burn the Episcopal Conference"

Country: Spain

Date of incident: March 6, 2018


On March 6 during the television program Més 324 on the public broadcasting network Catalonia TV3, former CUP politician and activist Bel Olid encouraged participation in the March 8 feminist strike by saying: "Hem de cremar la conferència episcopal per masclista i patriarchal!" (We must burn the Episcopal Conference for machismo and patriarchyl!).

Olid was a candidate of the CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) to the previous Catalan elections. 

Sources: TV3, Twitter and La Gaceta 

Photo: Loozrboy; CC BY-SA 2.0