José Manuel Fajardo refuses the immunity of Spanish royalty

The Spanish justice has filed a lawsuit against the satirical magazine 'El Jueves' because of a caricature of the Rotal family it considers slanderous. For the Spanish writer and journalist José Manuel Fajardo, "a society that can't laugh at it's elite, that is incapable of  dealing with humour in its most basic form, with all of its grotesque indecency, is a repressed society ... This is  about having the right to laugh at the monarchy. There are journalists and illustrators who are running the risk of being imprisoned for jesting with the Spanish crown. ... The problem is that the protection of the Spanish monarchy befalls the penal code rather than being covered by civil jurisdiction which fines instead of imprisoning. The honour of our monarchs is not defended in the same way as that of other citizens, with compensation, but rather with repressive procedures."

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