A neo-Nazi assaults comic Jaime Caravaca throughout a efficiency at a venue in Madrid | Culture | EUROtoday

The comic Jaime Caravaca, former collaborator of The resistance, was attacked this Monday evening throughout a efficiency at a venue within the middle of Madrid. In a video unfold on social networks you may see the comic in the midst of a monologue and a person who goes up on stage and interrupts him. Caravaca appears to acknowledge him and the person punches him within the face. After just a few moments of rigidity, the aggressor apologizes to the general public and justifies his motion in a message that Caravaca had made on social networks about his new child son. Afterwards, the aggressor delivers one other blow to Caravaca, who asks him to “speak,” however the man continues shouting expletives till the comic leaves the stage.

The aggressor, Alberto Pugilato, is a singer in a rock group known as Pugilato (the final title is an alias) that defines itself as anti-communist, with songs with supremacist and racist lyrics. The message by which he justified his motion was a remark that Caravaca made on May 31 on the social community the chance that he’s homosexual, and when he grows up he will get bored with sucking black cock. And as a black employee, no soccer gamers.” Although the remark didn’t refer on to the newborn, however to when the kid was an grownup, in the course of the assault Pugilato known as him a “pedophile.”

After the video of the assault was broadcast early this Tuesday morning, social networks have been stuffed with messages of hate in opposition to Caravaca. Faced with stress, the comic revealed on his X account: “After what occurred, what was supposed to be a joke was finally an unlucky and in no way acceptable touch upon my half. My apologies to anybody who feels affected. Let's put violence apart, and go away a great world for individuals to develop up free.”

In response, Pugilato commented shortly after: “I settle for your apology, Jaime. I defend freedom of expression in the identical approach that I defend the precise to reply. I want you no hurt and I hope this helps others perceive that youngsters are sacred. All one of the best”.

Before the attack, after the comedian's first comment on March 13, Pugilato had already made a series of comments stating that he would physically go to meet Caravaca. “Hundreds of death threats from Nazis in the morning. One more Saturday on Twitter,” Caravaca revealed the following morning, after the mobilization in opposition to and in favor of Pugilato that was generated on social networks, with lots of of feedback not solely recriminating Caravaca's message, however urging Pugilato to took justice into his personal fingers and attacked the comic.

The Police have confirmed to this newspaper {that a} police operation was deployed final evening on the location of the efficiency, that the officers spoke with each events, that they didn’t act ex officio because of the nature of the assault, “without injury or health intervention.” that due to this fact the choice to report or not fell on the comic, and that he declined to take action. Caravaca might nonetheless file a grievance, and this newspaper has tried to contact him to search out out if he’s going to file a grievance for assault, however to this point has not acquired a response. The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, revealed a tweet this morning through which he reported that he had spoken with the comic to “convey the support of the ministry for the aggression he suffered at the hands of the extreme right.”

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Pugilato is recognized by safety forces as one of the vital outstanding neo-Nazis in Spain. He has gathered a police file for accidents and public dysfunction and the Prosecutor's Office has identified the messages on social networks that he has made in help of Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist who prompted 51 deaths in an assault in opposition to two mosques in New Zealand in 2015. In 2021, the Supreme confirmed his sentence to 1 yr in jail for a hate crime for the racist lyrics of his songs at a live performance in Sabadell in 2010.

For his half, Caravaca (who in his profile on He commented to the politician Mónica Lora, a member of the Parliament of Catalonia for Vox, that her youngsters “are going to be gay whether you like it or not and they are going to swallow the cock of a black worker no matter how many flags you put on them.” He instructed the Cameroonian activist Bertrand Ndongo, affiliated with Vox: “Your mother's pussy is like a pipe, only shit has come out of it.” Another goal of her insults has been Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who after struggling an abortion acquired a message from Caravaca saying: “Ayuso has lost the child she was expecting, because let's see who can put up with that woman for nine months.”