“The gun is taken out to shoot, the one who takes it out to show it is a fool,” is the phrase with which a television character known as ‘El Tomate’ became popular more than 14 years ago, after his appearance on one of the reports from the program Callejeros de Cuatro.
Alberto Fernández, the real name of the author of that intervention, has now reappeared on Any Question Més?, on TV3, to take stock of the moment that made him especially known at the end of the 2000s and talk about his current life, very far from the character he All of Spain was able to learn about it at that time through television.
“I have drunk five bottles of White Label,” was another of his most legendary phrases that he himself now remembers with nostalgia. “It brings me to tears; for the first time I was on TV, I didn’t do so badly,” he jokes in the video published on the social networks of the program broadcast by Catalan regional television.
The report that catapulted Fernández, better known as ‘El Tomate de Mutxamel’, showed him and a friend of his at a police checkpoint. The vehicle in which they were traveling, along with the alleged pistol that they said they were carrying and which even today they do not confess if it was “inside or outside”, earned them the nickname ‘the Eclipse gunmen’.
Regarding his friend, who at that time said he had been “in three juvenile centers,” ‘El Tomate’ is blunt: “Not now because he is of age,” and talks about the relationship he currently has with him. “They are my usual friends, we live on the edge there in Mutxamel.”
Regarding the effects of the television moment on his life, Fernández considers that “it has benefited him more than harmed him.” “I have not hurt anyone, on the contrary! I send birthday and wedding greetings with my phrases, I work at the Mutxamel City Council for leisure and free time, I have set up venues for parties… Spain loves me !”, he said, concluding with a wink to his well-known phrase: “You already know that life is a party and anyone who doesn’t go out to party is a fool.