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Spain: police arrest "Covid denier" after calls for violence

2020-08-28T16:52:49.868Z


The man is being prosecuted for inciting hatred and violence, threats, defamation and usurpation of office.Spanish police have announced that they have arrested a man who claimed that the Covid-19 pandemic was a trumped-up lie and incited on social media to attack politicians and institutions. He denounced " the masquerade of the Covid ": this 38-year-old man encouraged his followers to attack those responsible, including the Prime Minister, explains in a press release the Ministry of the Interior whic...


Spanish police have announced that they have arrested a man who claimed that the Covid-19 pandemic was a trumped-up lie and incited on social media to attack politicians and institutions. He denounced " the masquerade of the Covid ": this 38-year-old man encouraged his followers to attack those responsible, including the Prime Minister, explains in a press release the Ministry of the Interior which qualifies him as " denier of the Covid ".

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" All of this could be settled by shooting Pedro Sanchez in the back of the neck ," the prime minister wrote the man in one of his social media posts. In other messages, he called to " burn " a group of Spanish doctors, threatened to set fire to the premises of a newspaper in Aragon (north) or even asked his followers to help him find the addresses. journalists he wanted to " scare the hell out of ".

The suspect, whose identity has not been revealed and who was arrested in Cuarte de Huerva, near Zaragoza (north), also posed as an official of a public body to call retirement homes , hospitals, football clubs or the media in order to " spread fake news " on the pandemic. He is being prosecuted for inciting hatred and violence, threats, defamation and usurpation of office. The pandemic has claimed more than 29,000 lives in Spain, making it one of the most affected countries in the world.

Source: lefigaro

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