Havana Cuba. — Musician and 9/11 protester abel lescay He has published a post in which he expresses his solidarity with the troubadour Fernando Bécquer, who is serving a prison sentence for lewd abuse of more than thirty women. The young man, in addition to praising Bécquer’s career, lamented that an artist had to go to prison and the indifference with which the trova union has reacted to the imprisonment of the abuser.
“Since Fernando Bécquer has been in prison, I feel bad (…) Today I wonder where Bécquer’s brothers are to defend him. The trovera community was grieved because there was a lynching on the networks (…) Hand up the one who doesn’t want an artist to become a prisoner. They did it to me and it is not pretty, ”he wrote.
The responses of various kinds did not wait. From her Facebook profile, the journalist Mónica Baró questioned the young man, alluding to the women who were abused by the troubadour.
“The musician Abel Lescay says that he feels bad since the sexual predator Fernando Bécquer, his hero from adolescence, is in prison. Before, with the dozens of testimonies from the victims of his hero, it seems that he did not feel bad. (…) Lescay does not want an artist to become a prisoner, as if being an artist (…) was a license to commit crimes.”
In one of his comments as a result of the controversy generated, Lescay himself assured, justifying Bécquer, that “we are all sexual predators (…) It is our nature.”
The harsh response of the activist Lara Crofs was immediate, reminding the musician that thousands of people, inside and outside of Cuba, supported the campaign on social networks to demand his release when he was arrested for demonstrating on July 11, 2021.
“It goes without saying that if I am taking the trouble to dedicate a post to you, it is because of the bit of disappointment that I have about you (…) We are not going to support you anymore, you were left alone as an abuser. And not all men are sexual predators.”
Several people who had shown empathy and interest in Abel Lescay since his imprisonment after the social outbreak, have attributed his post to the trauma caused by prison, or to drug use. Among so many voices that have harshly criticized him, the activist Yania Suárez has made a difference.
“Okay, what Lescay said is insensitive, sexist and stupid (…) I am very concerned (…) that I have stumbled too much with comments that withdraw his support for being a victim of the repression of 11J (…) I mean that if the The regime abuses Abel Lescay again, I am going to defend him again (…) without first asking him to take stock of his sins.”
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