The contrast is revealing. On November 3, 2024, during the president’s visit to Paiporta after the Dana catastrophe, we witnessed a media and political scandal of historic dimensions.
Pedro Sanchez was hastily evacuated from the town while the kings and Carlos Mazón They remained with the citizens, addressing their complaints.
The propaganda machinery of the Executive and its related media was immediately launched. The Government and the PSOE accused “organized ultra groups”, “extreme right-wing commandos” and “violent fringes” of having orchestrated an attack against the president.
There was talk of a blow with a stick, with obvious risk to his life, and of a premeditated attack against democracy.
However, the images quickly dismantled the official story. The videos showed that the stick thrown at the procession did not hit Sánchez, but rather a photographer who was walking behind. There was no physical attack on the president. There was no hospitalization. There were no injuries.
That “ultra commando” narrative was revealed for what it was: a lie. Neighbors of Paiporta clarified it publicly in various media: “They were all from the town,” they stated categorically. There were no organized groups, there were no fascists coming from outside. It was all a lie.
Now, however, a real aggression has occurred. A brutal, cowardly and documented attack against a journalist.
José Ismael MartínezEL ESPAÑOL reporter, was cornered, kicked to the ground and savagely beaten this Thursday by hooded left-wing men a patriot at the University of Navarra.
This time there is no doubt. There are videos, there are testimonies, there is a medical report of injuries. There is a real attack against a professional who was exercising his right and duty to inform.
And yet, the Government remains silent. Pedro Sánchez has not condemned the events. Its Twitter ministers, so quick to point out imaginary fascists, maintain a stony silence when the aggressors are the heirs of ETA, the cubs of the street fight, the EH Bildu partners that the Executive needs to stay in power.
The hypocrisy is unbearable. When the aggression was false and the aggressor could be branded as far-right, the entire State and propaganda apparatus was mobilized. When the aggression is real and the aggressors are abertzalesthe silence is absolute.
Because this aggression breaks their narrative. Because it condemns its blood pact with those who never condemned terrorism. Because it shows that the violence that is growing in Spain does not come from where they say, but from those they protect.
The spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpuruacalled just a week ago in Congress for “firm measures against the extreme right” while listing “Nazi hunts” and “ultra thugs.” Under the ideological umbrella of Bildu, the radical groups GKS and Indar Gorri act precisely, indicated by the Police as conveners of the violent protest in Pamplona.
There have been no angry tweets from the Home Secretary. There have been no statements from Moncloa. There have been no front pages in the regime’s media. There have been no emergency sessions in Congress. There have been no calls for democratic unity. Just silence. A complicit silence.
Faced with this double standard, the response of those who have unequivocally condemned the aggression is appreciated. The University of Navarra, the Popular Party, Vox, UPN, the Madrid Press Association, FAPE and dozens of associations and journalists have shown their solidarity with José Ismael Martínez and their unequivocal condemnation of violence. Feijóo y Ayuso They have been forceful. Journalist associations have demanded that the attackers be identified and arrested. Current Pamplona, Confidential Navarra, Navarra Diary and other local media have covered the events exhaustively.
EL ESPAÑOL condemns with special force the words of Irene Monterowhich has tried to divert the focus to other cases, comparing the brutal beating of a defenseless journalist with police arrests of violent radicals in other demonstrations. Montero has demonstrated once again that his commitment to freedom of expression and the condemnation of violence is selective, ideological and deeply hypocritical.
José Ismael Martínez ended up lying on the ground, covering his head while being kicked. That image is proof of what happens when accusations are normalized, when those who never condemned terrorism are legitimized, when political power degrades independent journalism.
Mr. Sánchez, your silence and that of your ministers and parliamentary partners is a response in itself.
And it is the worst of all.
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