Actor Barry Keoghan, known for films like Saltburn or the more recent Peaky Blinders: The King, has denounced the harassment he has suffered on social media, which has focused mainly on criticizing his physical appearance. In an interview with the American magazine Entertainment Weekly, he detailed that this hate campaign has altered his life and his way of behaving."It has made me withdraw into myself, not want to go anywhere, not want to go out," he says.

The events and images from Torre Pacheco hold up a mirror to the politics of hate fueled by the far right, an incendiary reality spreading across Europe like wildfire through social media, seeking places to disrupt coexistence with easy enemies. The immigrant population—even though they are sometimes second and third generations with Spanish nationality—and marginalized communities are in the crosshairs, all rife with Islamophobic and racist rhetoric. The case of the fire at the new Piera mosque, still under investigation, could also respond to this logic. In its various acronyms, forms, and versions, the underlying discourse and street actions of the European far right respond to the same pattern, with more than plausible digital connections. Communities with elements that ignite a spark are sought everywhere, and calls for violent activism are issued. Then the hunt for immigrants begins. In the wake of the chaos, the targeted group is generically blamed, creating a general climate of fear, also among the native population. This is how bridges are easily burned and a culture of suspicion is established.

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, is in the eye of the storm for his management of the DANA in the Valencian Community, with constant demonstrations, version changes on your part, and the Instruction from a judge in Catarroja that completely calls into question the actions of the Valencian government –with the indictment, for now, of the Minister responsible for Emergencies, Salomé Pradas. However, since the beginning of her controversial administration, she has also received several threats from citizens, and the first arrest has already been made. According to reports, The World And ARA has been able to confirm from police sources, a thirty-year-old man has been arrested for threats against Carlos Mazón, which he allegedly made anonymously.

Building up hate speech should be a hate crime. For days we have been witnessing a campaign perfectly orchestrated by the political and media far right to convert two isolated tweets against a family in Canet who asked for their 5-year-old child to receive half of its schooling in Spanish (so far, the Catalan High court has decided a quarter should be in Spanish) in a relentless persecution that has come to be compared to that suffered by the Jews in Nazi Germany or to the South African apartheid. They are surely the two most profitable tweets, in terms of discursive manipulation, in the history of Spanish ultra-nationalism. The impunity with which this fiction of victimisation of a child and a family has been constructed is unprecedented. It doesn't matter that it doesn't stand the slightest scrutiny by facts: the school in Canet swiftly obeyed the ruling and has been very careful to isolate the boys and girls from the controversy. Moreover, for some years now in Catalonia there has been a trickle of similar cases in different schools which have not caused such commotion, despite the questioning they imply of the system of linguistic immersion, the fruit of broad social and political consensus, and applied with evident flexibility, not to say laxity.