It is being a difficult day for the actor Juan Diego Botto. The Argentine-Spanish artist, known for his roles in I don’t like driving, El Zorro or Pulsaciones, has been involved in a campaign by the Spanish far-right to sow confusion and thus get votes in the upcoming elections on July 23.
On a website called Burbuja, a platform that defines itself as a “forum on the economy, politics, investments, the stock market, cryptocurrencies, current affairs and some leisure”, a false news story has been spread that accuses Botto of wanting the group to return ETA terrorist if Vox gets good results in 23J.
In the screenshot that he has uploaded, you can clearly see the false message that someone has written on his behalf: “If Vox reaches the Government, I will understand that ETA returns.” Faced with such serious accusations, the artist has come out to defend himself and has published several tweets.
”They send me this screenshot of a forum in which a phrase is attributed to me that obviously I have never said, nor would it even cross my mind. This is how the extreme right works; they lie and feed their hatred on falsehoods ”, the actor published this morning before his more than 217,000 Twitter followers.
The same person who posted the first false news explained on the forum that Botto, “the son of a terrorist,” is very nervous about Vox coming to power because this will make him “lose subsidies for coke and girls.” . He has also added that he “is crying out” to be put on a helicopter and given a ride like “they did with his father”. The user writes this with a clear ironic tone, since the artist’s father was assassinated by the Argentine dictatorship by throwing him from a plane.
Although the artist could have written all kinds of insults because the Vox sympathizer has called him a terrorist and has “stained” the memory of his father, Juan Diego Botto has responded elegantly: “Whoever has posted the false news accuses of terrorist to my father and asks that they throw me out of a helicopter as the Argentine military dictatorship did with my father. (They were planes, not helicopters, but anyway…). Killing those who think differently supported by lies…”.
The director of On the Margins has used his visibility and popularity on the microblogging platform to make his fans reflect on the hatred of the campaign by followers of the extreme right, who are not afraid or ashamed to talk about dead people, use the terrorism as a weapon and publicly encourage crimes.
”Apart from denouncing the Police and the pertinent legal actions, what is relevant is to reflect on a whole strategy of hate, of the will to exterminate those who think differently based on falsehoods, hoaxes, false news. This is how we have come this far ”, he has sentenced on his official Twitter account before a wave of comments of support and affection.
