The false defendants of the Burgos crime will go to trial to point out the extreme right

The young people falsely accused by social networks of the murder of a woman in Burgos assure that they will go to trial to dismantle the hoax and point out the extreme right, linked to the profiles responsible for this "racist attack" to prevent them from "getting away with it."

"We want to dismantle and point out that the extreme right is the one that has spread our images to put racialized people in the spotlight," said Ahmed Benyahia, one of the two affected, who insists that "forgiveness is of no use to us because the fake news is still spreading, and the impact on a personal and professional level cannot be fixed."

Although the National Police has already arrested six people as alleged perpetrators of the crime and both young people have publicly denied the accusations, the information continues to circulate even in countries such as Morocco, Algeria, France or Italy, in the latter still incriminating them, those affected regret.

"This can never be erased, it will remain forever. Even if fifteen or twenty years pass, my face will remain in that news. Fake news, but it will still be there," he tells Youssef Abraoui, the other victim of the false accusations.

"I thought they had destroyed my life"

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Ahmed Benyahia is a 20-year-old student from Barcelona, ​​and Youssef Abraoui, a 29-year-old taxi driver from Manresa (Barcelona), but the publication attributed the identities of Mohammed Chekraoui, 16, and Ayoub Haiboub, 17, to them, claiming that they were naturalized foreigners and blaming them for the woman's murder.

"When I saw him I had an anxiety attack, I couldn't breathe and I thought that my life had been completely destroyed," explains Benyahia, who has been afraid to go out on the street all week in case "a fascist or a Nazi" recognizes him and surrounds himself with people he trusts, a support that has accompanied him to the media interviews and that, like Abraoui, they claim is what has allowed them to stand up to the accusations.

The information was disseminated through different social media platforms by numerous accounts such as those of Núcleo Nacional, the far-right movement; Revuelta, Vox's youth organization; or the media El Imperial España, which have accumulated tens of thousands of followers, many of which have deleted the content after its falsehood was exposed.

However, both Benyahia, who works at a school where children and families have been able to see the publications, and Abraoui have continued to suffer the consequences throughout the week: "I put a client in the car, he stares at me in the rearview mirror and I am left wondering if he knows it or not," says the taxi driver.

"The play went very badly for them"

Benyahia reported the tweet at the Mossos d'Esquadra police station in Nou Barris, in Barcelona, to which the Catalan police have already opened an investigation, as confirmed by the force, while Abraoui is collecting and verifying all the publications to do the same at the Manresa police station.

"We are both going to go to trial together," detailed Benyahia, who last Sunday managed to contact Abraoui through networks, who intends to file a complaint and also report the facts through civil means.