It took several weeks for the Policía Nacional to track down and arrest a dangerous Covid-19 negationists in Huerva (Zaragoza) and not a moment too soon.
He was considered dangerous because he impersonated public officials and encourage acts of murder on social-media platforms.
His messages were: “If you’re thinking about suicide, take a politician with you,” and “This whole problem could be solved with a bullet in the back of the head of PM Sánchez.”
The arrested man attempted to cover his online tracks using different foreign SIM cards, which he frequently changed, and servers based in foreign countries.
Posing as a public official he had contacted hospitals, homes for the aged, football clubs and news media outlets, giving false data concerning the present situation concerning the pandemic.
His hate posts on social media even went so far as to target doctors: “The College of Doctors should be burnt to the ground, the sons of bitches.”
Another example (and an ironic one given who was saying it) example of his hate posts, he published: “If my parents weren’t still alive, I would have killed a ‘cov-idiot’ They’re bad and ignorant people who deserve to die.”
He also went after known media personalities asking: “Does anybody know where this dirty rat lives; I want to go there and give them a good fright.”
Nobody appears to have been exempt from his vendetta because he also accused the Unidad Militar de Emergencias of going around care homes for the elderly with the aim of murdering them.
Finally, he published a photograph of the outside of an Aragón town hall that had a banner saying 26 women had been murdered in cases of gender violence draped across the facade, to which he added, “only 26?” implying that there should be more.
Editorial comment: credulous or negationist? You can go through life believing that nothing is as it seems because the world is lying to you or you can err on the opposite end; credulity to the extreme – neither is healthy. However, it stops being a personal choice when you seek to impose your point of view on others, which is when you become dangerous.
(News: Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain)