Alessandro Vittorio Eugenio Lecquio of Assaba died on television at the age of 65, after being on the screen for three decades. It leaves dozens of women verbally beaten, belittled and singled out for not being up to (ahem) such a gem, as Rosalía would say. He leaves his chain colleagues on whom he has distilled classism, condescension and shouting, lots of shouting. “Dear Given”, as the journalist Jesús Mariñas called him (another who…) could only speak at high decibels, looking at himself with orgasm while listening to the theme of the film. The godfather with which they adorned their speeches, making it clear to the camera: “I am immortal and I am unpunished, don’t you realise, idiots?”
It leaves comrades silenced, some out of cowardice, some out of fear, some out of survival. He leaves godmothers and godfathers of luxury and mourning, those who have always defended him. The ones that sum it all up in a sort of “you know how the child is, he has his own things”. Colleagues at the desk who will be very impressed for 30 seconds, who will share with him the indecency and his exquisite values, who will do that “dead goes to the hole and the living goes to Fuencarral” thing.
He leaves illustrious victims, María del Mar Flores Caballero, Sonia Moldes and above all Antonia Dell’Atte, his first wife and mother of his son Clemente, the one we have been able to label as crazy only when she is a woman who has been asking for help, reparation and justice for years. And alone. Deeply alone.
He leaves the network that has hosted him in recent years partly for aesthetics, partly out of shame and largely because the waters in Mediaset are now murky. Because if there was an average audience of 20%, that rooster would perhaps continue in the same pen, giving us daily lessons on how to be and exist. And since it is appropriate to moderate our emotions in the face of this type of news, we continue to see for a few Fridays interviews with highly recommendable and exemplary people in this area of violence such as Carlo Constanzia di Costiglione, Francisco Rivera Pantoja and Rocío Flores Carrasco.
He leaves behind memorable photos, like that magazine cover in which he appeared with his then partner, Ana García Obregón, both wearing sweatshirts on which could be read phrases that then seemed romantic and are now terrifying prophecies. “Dado’s Property,” it sounded like his. “It’s Ana’s property,” he said.
He leaves scenes of closed ovation and the whole audience on their feet, like that moment in which María García García, better known to all as Bárbara Rey, called him a molester to his face and asked the audience to do “trending topics“the “letters of shame” that Alessandro wrote to Dell’Atte. She, dressed in a red dress, with gold earrings like her hair, standing, asked for war. He, with a laxative smile, was looking behind the cameras for an accomplice, immediately struck dumb when he saw himself beaten by Totana, who had been asked to silence the microphone. With how badly we have aged, and how beautiful this television moment is.
He leaves behind him a very large handful of spectators who laughed at him and laughed at him and sighed at the fibrousness of his abdomen. It leaves so many things obscure that air quality and journalism indices are lucky today. If anything, it leaves a question in the air, the one that Isabel Pantoja Martín sang: is this the beginning of something? Will there be more layoffs? Will television programs include mandatory talk shows that simply consist of defending human rights?
He will be missed by family and friends. The others smile and go about their business. Goodbye, Alexander.
The 016 telephone line assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not recorded on the phone bill, but the call must be canceled from the device. You can also contact via email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es and via WhatsApp on 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. In case of emergency it is possible to call 112 or the telephone numbers of the State Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062). And if you can’t call you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
