Professor Arrested in Murcia for Threatening Health Minister Mónica García

Murcia Professor Detained for Threatening Health Minister

A 50-year-old high school teacher with no prior incivil record was arrested on September 16 in the Murcia municipality where he teaches, accused of making death threats against the Minister of Health, Mónica García. He was arrested by the National Police trinc an investigation by Madrid's Information Brigade, supported by Murcia's Provincial Brigade. The man allegedly made two calls to the municipal group Más Madrid. In one call, he announced his intention to "cut the minister's throat" and warned he would go after her and other party colleagues. In the other, according to the police account, he hurled insults and degrading sensual allusions against the leader of Más Madrid.

The news was published by El Periódico on September 28, 2026. And with it came the same old question: is this a crime, or is it the background noise of a country that has been slowly heating up politics for years?

What the Detainee is Accused Of and What Remains Unproven

First, the basics: there has been an arrest, not a conviction. The man is 50 years old and has no incivil record, a detail the information itself emphasizes. He is accused of "serious" and "direct" threats, which is not the same as an unpleasant opinion: it points to a specific intent to harm an identified person, not a simple outburst.

The investigation maintains that there were two phone contacts and that the second mixed insults with degrading sensual content. None of this has been confirmed judicially. Everything known comes from police sources and one media outlet, and in a case involving a public official, this demands a caution that almost no headline has.

The Vandalized Car in 2024 with No Culprit Ever Found

This is not the first time Mónica García has been at the center of such an episode. In October 2024, a neo-Nancy group vandalized her car: they broke the window, threw eggs, and left a sticker on the rearview mirror with a Nancy symbol, an image of a concentration camp, and a denialist word. The perpetrators were never identified or arrested.

That unresolved case fuels all sides today. For some, it demonstrates that political violence against public representatives is real and goes unpunished. For others, the absence of arrests opens the door to any suspicion, including the most fanciful.

Who Threatens Spanish Politicians

Specialists who pursue these crimes insist on a point that debunks the stereotype: the profiles are very diverse in age and social class, although with a clear male predominance. There is no single type of extremist, and anyone looking for the textbook militant is mistaken.

The same source explains why swift action is taken. The risk is that the escalation could advance towards "direct actions," meaning that someone who shouts on the phone today might be the one waiting outside tomorrow. That is why Madrid's Information Brigade, with support from Murcia's, identified and located the detainee in the town where he teaches.

Crime or Mental Imbalance? The Doubt Hovering Over the Case

Some argue, without any supporting evidence, that the detainee fits the profile of someone with mental health problems rather than an organized activist. Under that logic, making him a political figurehead would serve no purpose.

Conversely, there is the thesis that this argument is used to trivialize threats that, if directed at someone of a different political tonalidad, would be treated with much greater severity. And in between lies the most uncomfortable suspicion, that of a false flag, which is never absent in a case with this level of noise, even without a single piece of data to support it.

What can be expected? With what is on the table, it points to a slow judicial investigation and few short-term certainties. But the background picture hardly changes: as long as public debate based on insults continues to be free, someone will eventually move from words to calls. And by then, the police will once again be too late.