On Sunday evening, a shocked Spain was still watching television to find out what was happening in the areas devastated by DANA. Of all the options offered by the channels, the majority chose to learn from a far-right expert on UFOs, spirits and conspiracy theories. This sounds like a joke, but it’s not.
Iker Jiménez began creating his “occult researcher” persona on Cadena SER. As soon as he solidified it and went on television, the first thing he did was dust off his blue shirt. Between the alien and the paranormal phenomenon, there was a report criminalizing the Second Republic with lies or an interview with any neofascist disguised as a historian or researcher. The “friends of the unknown”, who initially constituted its audience, gave way to neo-Nazis, denialists of everything, lovers of conspiracy theories, undoubtedly and to the Falange itself which publicly congratulated the presenter for having dedicated a program “out of admiration and objectivity” to José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Without any honest person at the head of Mediaset to stop him, Jiménez finally took off his mask and dedicated himself, for several years, to spreading the history and agenda of the global far right. Their programs served to promote neo-Nazi theories such as the Great Replacement, amplify the Kalergi Plan hoax, and even give voice to well-known Holocaust deniers, prompting a complaint at the time. public from the Observatory of Anti-Semitism. During the pandemic, he has dedicated himself to spreading lies and half-truths amid chaos, despair and tragedy. After that, he focused on identifying immigration with criminality and serving as a spokesperson for the entire ideological spectrum to the right of the PP (and within the PP itself ). He couldn’t resist the craziest theories, like the one that airplane contrails are actually proof that elites are spraying us from the sky to change the climate, make us sick, or who knows why. Iker Jiménez’s boat has never been one of mystery, but rather one of hoaxes, hatred and racism. An attractive ship for this high percentage of Spaniards who already live in the Trumpist bubble erected by the triple A of Ayuso, Abascal and Alvise.
