Comedian investigated for asking to dynamite the largest cross and stone priests

The Spanish Justice has initiated proceedings against the Spanish comedian Héctor de Miguel, known as Quequé, for encouraging people to fly with dynamite the largest cross in the worldlocated in the Valley of the Fallen, and to stone pedophile priests.

The Court of Instruction No. 38 of Madrid is thus investigating the presenter of Cadena Ser (PRISA Group Radio) for encouraging the dynamiting of the Valley of the Fallen and the stoning of “pedophile” priests at the doors of churches and monasteries.

In a recent radio broadcast held on June 27, 2024, the comedian addressed the Christian Lawyers Foundation, which is maintaining another case against Héctor de Miguel for similar statements, ensuring that everyone present in the studio, including himself, has one wish: “to fill of dynamite the cross of the Valley of the Fallen and blow it up into the air. If it can be, on a Sunday, better, so that more people can go.”

During the course of the program Twenty-something hour, He added that with “all the little pieces that come out of the cross of the Valley of the Fallen” they would go to “the doors of the churches and monasteries” to throw them against priests guilty of crimes of abuse.

To conclude this call, he also noted: “Maybe we also need to blow up Almudena,” in reference to the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Madrid.

According to the order opening proceedings that the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers has released, the court has notified Héctor de Miguel that it has accepted the complaint filed by these jurists for processing and urges the comedian to appoint a lawyer within three days.

The investigating court affirms that Héctor de Miguel will be called to testify and demands that Cadena SER record the program.

The Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers accuses the presenter of a crime of provocation to discrimination, hatred and violence included in the article 510.1 a) of the Penal Code.

It establishes a prison sentence of 1 to 4 years and a fine of six to twelve months for “those who publicly encourage, promote or incite, directly or indirectly, hatred, hostility, discrimination or violence against a group, a part of it or against a specific person by reason of his or her membership, for racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gypsy or other reasons related to ideology, religion or beliefs, family situation, the belonging of its members to an ethnic group, race or nation, their national origin, their sex, sexual orientation or identity, for reasons of gender, aporophobia, illness or disability.”

The president of Christian Lawyers, Poland Castellanos, wonders what would happen if a presenter said on the air that “mosques, synagogues, the headquarters of certain political parties, LGTBI associations, etc., must be filled with dynamite.” Or “Muslims, Jews, homosexuals, bisexuals, socialists, etc. must be stoned.”

Castellanos considers that what was expressed by Héctor de Miguel “is outrageous and intolerable” so “justice has to act. This is not the first time that this presenter has made similar statements, and he cannot go unpunished because these attacks against Catholics are increasing.”

Indeed, in July 2022 he made similar statements to which the Foundation filed a complaint not only for a hate crime and against religious feelings, but also for harassment.

Héctor de Miguel testified in court about those statements in December 2022, after which the proceedings were archived. The Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers appealed this decision and is awaiting the resolution.