Carme Chaparro is in a good personal and professional moment. She has just published her new novel, Crime, which is already in its second edition, and she turned 50 two months ago, in which she claims to be the best moment of her life. The journalist has taken advantage of this happy time to look back and remember some moments in which her profession and her success have brought her unwanted situations.
In an interview with Lecturas magazine, speaking of hate on social networks, he recalled the harassment he suffered for years by a guy who sent him constant death threats and who even published his address and school on social networks. the one who carried his eldest daughter. "Suddenly I found a newborn baby (her second daughter from her) without wanting to leave the house in case she was waiting for me outside. They were years of obsession. I reported it to the police but it was of no use," she explained.
Chaparro also recounts a tense situation that he had to experience during a promotion for one of his books in Valencia, near where his stalker lived. He recounts that he first tried to gain access to her and was kicked out by a department store security team. But he says that he followed her throughout the city and that he waited for her at the AVE station, where he tried to attack her while he yelled that he was going to kill her.
Due to that episode, the guy was sentenced to two years in prison, which was left in a restraining order, Chaparro says. "I was doing the rest of the promo at the time with an armed bodyguard because we were terrified that he would show up somewhere." The journalist says that she remembers his face and that is why he still has a thousand eyes.
This is not the only situation of harassment that Chaparro has experienced. Some time ago he also opened up about a series of anonymous death threats that came to him from different cities in Spain more than two decades ago. The journalist said that the anonymous letters began to arrive more frequently and that they were increasingly threatening and contained more personal data. “I didn't tell anyone. I thought nothing could be done. But I vomited from the fear that she had ”. However, she did not stop thinking about who she could be until she came across a revealing detail.
“It turns out that the places and dates coincided with the promotional tour of someone who worked near me. Knowing that made me feel powerful, because that guy is a piece of shit that needs to threaten and scare him to believe that he is someone and in control. I never told him and today I think I should have. And not only that, but report it to the police. Exposing the monster ”, she then assessed on her social networks.
Chaparro continued his story by referring to his relationship with this stalker: “He doesn't know that I know. And sometime that we have met, because fortunately he is very far from my life now, he comes to greet me like a lapdog ”.
