The journalist and writer Fonsi Loaiza has presented this Friday June 14 his new book, Usual suspects. Corruption in the Spanish State (Bellaterra Edicions), in the Madrid Book Fair. However, it has not been a smooth book signing, as Loaiza has had to attend to his readers while enduring cries of ‘fucking red’ or ‘faggot’ by some visitors to this literary fair.
This is how he expressed it from his X account (formerly Twitter), where he published a video denouncing having suffered “a far-right attack”. In addition, Loaiza has also regretted the behavior of police forces who were guarding the scene: “The police have not taken them into custody and have reproached me for calling them Nazis. This is how fascism runs rampant in Spain. Not pass!”has published in X.
Some politicians were quick to react to Loaiza’s publication: Second Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Diazhas regretted the “regrettable homophobic insults” to Loaiza from his official X account. Some messages that, according to Díaz, “they are increasingly common and always come from the same side”. “It must be condemned firmly and jointly,” the minister concluded.
He Sumar spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Íñigo Errejónand the Podemos MEP, Irene Monterohave joined in denouncing these events and have shown your support for the writer from their respective X accounts. “If it were the other way around, they would already be arrested.”. The double standard is scandalous and continues to embolden fascists,” Errejón has published.
However, these insults have not been surprising for the writer. As he published on May 29, also from his X account, Loaiza already foresaw this situation before his book signing: “The neo-Nazis continue trying to intimidate me and are preparing a far-right assault. The Police do absolutely nothing. See you at the Madrid Book Fair on June 14 and 15, fascists”the journalist published.
The homophobic attacks on Fonsi Loaiza are causing a big stir on social networks. The topic has already become trending topics in X Spainwith all kinds of people, from journalists to writers and artists, who are joining the complaint and who are raising their voices in defense of this writer and journalist.
