UD Las Palmas: the feminist lobby rejects the equality agenda of the yellow club

A total of 11 interest groups claimed Monday that public and private companies have photo related to UD Las Palmas that they reflect on their presence associated with the yellow team for the presence of a soccer player convicted of gender violence, Joel Domínguez, 18, in their reunion agenda.

So, since Ecologists in Action, Doctors of the WorldKellys Unión Gran Canaria, Association of Young Women of Gran Canaria ‘Ágora Violeta’, Association of Canary Islands Women Athletes, Association of Women, Solidarity and Cooperation, Zuleima Women’s Association, Mujeres Libres Yazirat collective, Canarian Association of Alternative EconomyMen’s Association for Gender Equality, Frida Kahlo Women’s Association, Canary Islands Women’s Collective, Maresía Grande Women’s Association, LGTB Gamá Collective, Guanarteme Bay Women’s Association and En-Visible Women’s Association, condemned Joel Domínguez who climbed your professional travel on his promotion to the first team of UD Las Palmas due to his complaints about gender violence.

The entities that are part of Red Feminista, a citizens’ platform, indicate that they are “angry” at the fact that the president of the Las Palmas Sports Union, Miguel Angel Ramirezsay Domínguez “made a mistake” and we should “help him”, because he considers that in this way he “minimizes physical and mental violence”.

“From the Feminist Network of Gran Canaria UD Las Palmas and all its public and private sponsors are asked to be aware of the key role played by soccerHe, in general, and the UD Las Palmas club in particular, now more from the First Division (…) with thousands of followers, in the collective imagination as a generator of values“, Add.

The Feminist Network of Gran Canaria rejects that Joel Domínguez will be made to play “in the first team when it goes up to the First Division”, because “it increases its value in society and its weight as a reference, ignoring that this is a convicted abuser“.

It also regrets that an “important club for the population of the island and thus receives the money of the people“decide that” your economic interests outweigh the continuous condemnation of violence against women, which already drags the number of 22 women murdered in Spain in 2023 and increased to 1,206 since 2003.”

victim. Because of this, it publicizes its support “for the victim and her family, because the girl who was attacked should receive the support that the club is offers help to the perpetrator to overcome the situation of violence experienced and supported by a team that promotes the aggressor without thinking about what it means for her, for the fans and for all women”.

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas has responded to the controversy that has arisen around the youth Joel Domínguez that it will be “a contradiction” for a club like him, which collaborates in various programs for the social reintegration of young people there are legal problems, “turning away from them. ” to an entity player.

The Unión Deportiva recalled that the player had already served the sentence imposed on him at the time (40 days of work for the benefit of the community) and also the internal punishment set by the club for him: training alone for the same time.

It also stressed that “his continuation at the club is conditioned on submitting to an intervention coordinated by the Foundation (by the entity itself) and carried out by external professionals, aimed at redirecting his attitude and behavior.”

“The player has already served the disciplinary sanction and the agreed intervention program will end this week,” he added.

Unión Deportiva Las Palmas said that “it participated and continues to participate in various initiatives and programs aimed at preventing social exclusion of people convicted in court, facilitating their reintegration into society”.