The ultra agitator Vito Quiles goes to court and boasts of "winning the pulse against Sánchez" after spending 48 hours on the run from justice

The ultra agitator Vito Quiles has turned his appearance in the courts of Plaza de Castilla into a new show. Quiles appeared this Friday with his lawyer after Judge Rosa María Freire rendered ineffective the order of search, arrest, and presentation issued against him for not attending two judicial summonses.

Upon leaving the courts, the 'pseudojournalist' once again opted for a defiant tone. “We have won the pulse against the Government, we have won the pulse against Pedro Sánchez,” he proclaimed to the media. He also accused the President of the Government of wanting “the photo” of him “entering handcuffed into a dungeon” and defended that he did not intend to lend himself to that image.

The judicial resolution, however, does not close the case. The magistrate of the Instruction Court number 32 of Madrid has summoned him as a defendant next July 20 at 12:45 p.m. The provision also warns that a new unjustified non-appearance may lead to his arrest.

Two ignored summonses and a case for a hoax

The order against Quiles arose after he failed to appear to testify on June 9 and 25 in a case opened for an alleged crime against honor. The procedure stems from the complaint of a public official to whom the agitator attributed false facts on social media, including having been in prison, having been released thanks to the Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, and having subsequently been placed in a ministry.

The complainant maintains that Quiles disseminated his full name and a personal photograph, which would have caused insults, threats, and derogatory messages on social media. The complaint demands 50,000 euros for moral and professional damages.

The Police went this week to the headquarters of Estado de Alarma TV, where Quiles works, to execute the judicial order, but failed to locate him. He responded on social media with mockery, defiant messages, and a photograph in a swimming pool while maintaining that he would not surrender “to the Sánchez Government”.

The court dismantled his lawyer's version

Quiles' defense had tried to present the court's action as a refusal to accept his voluntary appearance. His lawyer, Juango Ospina, assured that he went to Plaza de Castilla and that there he was told that, if his client appeared, he would be arrested.

Judicial sources offered another version. The court was on duty and the magistrate was attending to statements from detainees, so she could not organize an ordinary appearance immediately. According to these sources, the lawyer was told that the channel was to go to a police station, communicate the willingness to appear before the court and provide an address and contact phone number.

This Friday, after the formal appearance of the defense and Quiles' willingness to testify, the judge has lifted the order and set a new date. The procedure will go ahead.

“I enter with my passport and leave with it”

Quiles has used the withdrawal of the order to fuel his narrative of political persecution. “I can say that when I come here I enter with my passport and leave with it, others cannot say the same,” he stated to the press, before attacking journalists and political rivals.

The agitator insisted that the order was “political” and compared his situation with other media cases. He also defended that the measure “makes no sense” and that, in similar cases, a location order would suffice.

To questions from journalists, Quiles again defended the version that originated the complaint. That will be the central point of his statement on July 20, where he will have to answer for the publications that led the official to go to court.

The case adds to other judicial fronts open against Quiles in different courts, including procedures linked to alleged slander, revelation of secrets, harassment or hate crimes. On the political front, his figure has been supported by leaders of the right-wing Popular Party and the far-right Vox while accumulating episodes of tension with journalists, public officials and institutional headquarters.