Did Spain's PSOE order the killing of Maricarmen?
A message parodies an alleged hitman contract linked to Spain's PSOE. The conversation is fictional and no criminal act has been reported.
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No. The message is a made-up parody: a fictional dialogue between hitmen simulating a contract to kill an elderly woman to create an electoral 'martyr'. There is no real event, complaint or evidence behind it.
The conversation circulating these days is an invented dialogue. Two alleged hitmen speak by phone with an intermediary who says he is calling 'from Ferraz clan' and asks for 'a scare, a fatal one' on an elderly woman. The price mentioned is **80 million pesetas**, a currency out of use since 2002. There is no victim, no contract, no known investigation.
## A script, not a complaint
The text imitates the tone of a real phone call: hold music, an operations department giving the 'green light', a delivery deadline of 'tomorrow at dawn'. It is a parody built on hitman movie clichés. The reference to getting 'Richal' out of prison as part of the deal reinforces the fictional tone.
No media outlet has reported that such a contract exists. There is no known police or judicial complaint either. The message provides no names, dates or specific places.
## The electoral 'martyr'
The dialogue attributes a political motive to the alleged client: creating a victim to mobilise votes in an election. That intention is presented as part of the script, not as a proven fact. The expression 'clan of payos' is an insult the text itself uses to disparage a political group.
The elderly woman referred to in the message is not identified by full name in the text. The content does not allow verifying her existence or situation.
## What can be checked
Nothing in the dialogue has any documentary backing. The figures mentioned —the **80 million pesetas**— are an amount expressed in a currency no longer in circulation. The reference to Ferraz alludes to the PSOE headquarters in Madrid, but the message provides no verifiable link to the party.
The conversation circulates as a loose text, with no known author or identifiable source. It is a hoax in conversational format, a common genre on social media.
If there is any suspicion of a real threat or incivil contract, the right course is to report it to the police or the prosecutor's office. This article does not claim that such a contract exists.
The conversation circulating these days is an invented dialogue. Two alleged hitmen speak by phone with an intermediary who says he is calling 'from Ferraz clan' and asks for 'a scare, a fatal one' on an elderly woman. The price mentioned is **80 million pesetas**, a currency out of use since 2002. There is no victim, no contract, no known investigation.
## A script, not a complaint
The text imitates the tone of a real phone call: hold music, an operations department giving the 'green light', a delivery deadline of 'tomorrow at dawn'. It is a parody built on hitman movie clichés. The reference to getting 'Richal' out of prison as part of the deal reinforces the fictional tone.
No media outlet has reported that such a contract exists. There is no known police or judicial complaint either. The message provides no names, dates or specific places.
## The electoral 'martyr'
The dialogue attributes a political motive to the alleged client: creating a victim to mobilise votes in an election. That intention is presented as part of the script, not as a proven fact. The expression 'clan of payos' is an insult the text itself uses to disparage a political group.
The elderly woman referred to in the message is not identified by full name in the text. The content does not allow verifying her existence or situation.
## What can be checked
Nothing in the dialogue has any documentary backing. The figures mentioned —the **80 million pesetas**— are an amount expressed in a currency no longer in circulation. The reference to Ferraz alludes to the PSOE headquarters in Madrid, but the message provides no verifiable link to the party.
The conversation circulates as a loose text, with no known author or identifiable source. It is a hoax in conversational format, a common genre on social media.
If there is any suspicion of a real threat or incivil contract, the right course is to report it to the police or the prosecutor's office. This article does not claim that such a contract exists.
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