Comedian Quequé, prosecuted for joking about "dynamiting" the Valley of the Fallen

BarcelonaA Madrid judge has decided to prosecute comedian Héctor de Miguel, better known as Quequé, for an alleged hate crime for joking on his radio show encouraging people to blow up the Valle de los Caídos and throw stones at paedophile care. In an appearance before the judge on 23 January, the comedian argued that the alleged events were a joke "exclusively with the audience" of the programme. Vintipico Time, from Cadena SER. The radio program is a satirical news program that is broadcast from Monday to Thursday at 8:45 p.m.

The judge of the 38th Court of Instruction in Madrid, which opened the case after the complaint filed by Abogados Cristianos, issued a ruling that same day, to which Efe had access on Wednesday, in which he sees indications of a hate crime in the words. According to the magistrate, Quequé's joke "is expressions of an offensive nature that are not a simple exaggeration or hyperbole, but rather imply the imputation of an extremely serious crime towards an entire group by calling for them to be attacked by throwing stones."

The events referred to in the resolution date back to June 2024, when during a broadcast of his program Quequé he said, laughing: "Christian Lawyers, all of us here have one wish, which is to fill the cross of the Valley of the Fallen with dynamite and make it." The comedian continued: "Once the cross is blown up, we will take all the pieces and, just as you [Christian Lawyers] go to the clinics to harass women who want to have an abortion, we will go to the churches to throw them at the priests who have fucked a child."

In the indictment, the judge considers that these expressions are not protected by freedom of expression or artistic creation nor can they be considered "an example of sarcastic humor." The magistrate goes further and states that "they involve a gratuitous, false and directly offensive accusation", made with publicity in a programme with tens of thousands of listeners, which "may be suitable to generate in part of the audience, even indirectly, feelings of hatred or hostility against the specific group to which they refer."