The congressmen Susel Paredes (Together for Peru) and Alejandro Muñante (Renovación Popular) were involved in a tense discussion on the social network X (formerly Twitter) due to the bill presented by Walls — which will be debated in the Justice and Human Rights Commission — which proposes sanctioning the hate crimes with up to 35 years of imprisonment. According to Muñante, this proposal “would criminalize thoughts and feelings.”
The controversy began when Muñante Barrios published a tweet in which he mentioned that the initiative of the member of the Together for Peru bench would seek to criminalize people “who dissent from gender ideology” and “persecute those who fight and express their indignation in the face of foreign crime”. However, Paredes — in response to his colleague — called him a “liar,” since his project “points out nothing related to nationality.”
Hours later, the parliamentarian Popular Renewal quoted the tweet of Susel Paredes in which he defended himself by saying “the thief believes that everyone is of his condition, I do not lie” accompanied by an image in which a bill is read that expresses “the penalty is increased by up to a third above the legal maximum (…) out of hatred (…) as the place of origin nationality”.
Nevertheless, Walls He rebuked the legislator, calling him a “liar and ignorant” and argued: “what I add in my two Bills is this, and here is the proof. I am not responsible for projects of other congressmen. Don’t want to deceive public opinion.” .
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Susel Paredes: what does your bill on hate crimes propose?
The congresswoman Susel Paredes presented bill No. 8294/2023-CR in which it proposes punishing hate crimes with custodial sentences ranging from 20 to 35 years. The initiative seeks to modify articles 46, 108, 121 and 122 of legislative decree No. 365 of the Penal Code.
“He will be punished with imprisonment. not less than twenty years of age nor more than thirty-five years of agethe fact that kill another motivated by hate based on racial, ethnic, health condition, religious, political prejudice, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression,” the document reads.
According to the legislative proposal, would be classified as a hate crime the action of “carrying out the crime motivated by intolerance, discrimination or hatred, such as origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic factor, affiliation, age, disability, health condition, language, ethnic and cultural identity, clothing, opinion, economic condition, or any other type.”
