The comedian and radio presenter Héctor de Miguel, Quequé, has reflected on impunity and fear of the advance of the extreme right after the attack by a neo-Nazi on comedian Jaime Caravaca during a performance in Madrid. “I don’t want to think, because I am naive, that in my country you can announce that you are going to attack someone, do it, show it publicly and nothing happens,” he stated on the Hora Veintipico program on Cadena SER.
Quequé has criticized the coverage of the media that in their headlines highlighted that it was the reaction of “a father” – the aggressor justifies what happened with a tweet about his son – and they forgot the detail that he is “a father with criminal record” and among other things, a Holocaust denier who celebrated the attack on two mosques. “You don’t understand it because you are not parents, but you invade Poland one day for a son,” he said ironically.
“Nazis scare me, quite scary, because being Nazis they do Nazi things. (…) I am not brave nor do I want to be. I don’t have half a host. I don’t want to join a gym at this point, if I’m already exhausted with paddle tennis. I am afraid of the impunity with which certain people feel free to threaten, harass and attack those who do not think like them. And to upload it to the networks because they know that it will not have consequences. If this is going to create a precedent and the new trend is going to consist of buying a ticket to go to a theater and attacking the comedian because you didn’t like the joke, then that’s it, we have found the limits of humor. If you hit me, I’ll shut up. And if you kill me, too,” he reflected.
The comedian is happy that “it hasn’t gone any further” and has “fixed himself, in quotes” with a conversation in which Caravaca apologized for the tweet in which he responded to an image of Alberto ‘Pugilato’ with his son telling him that “nothing and no one can prevent the possibility that he is gay and when he grows up he gets tired of sucking black worker’s cock.” “I understand that the last thing Jaime wants to do is report, I understand that he prefers to turn the page. But maybe someone, sometime, could act ex officio. Because this is filling us with Nazis who roam freely, who feel unpunished, who have representatives in Congress and who after Sunday are going to have many MEPs. There are even people who say that they are not like them and then make a pact with them,” he continued.
For this reason, Quequé has argued, “it is logical that some of us are afraid.” “You cannot demand that anyone be brave. To whom it may concern, please protect us.”
