The police went to the channel’s headquarters this Wednesday morning online where the well-known agitator Vito Zopellari Quiles, known as Vito Quiles, to stop it. The agents have appeared with a search and arrest warrant at the headquarters of EDA TV, a YouTube channel, on Lagasca Street in Madrid, but Quiles was not there at that time because most of his work is carried out on the street and not in the editorial office, say sources familiar with the situation of the investigated person. It is unknown from which of the cases opened against Quiles the court order for his arrest derives. The agitator assured hours later: “I do not intend to surrender to the Sánchez Government.”
Quiles himself has been the first to announce the arrest order online, although without specifying in relation to which judicial process is open. “A judge has ordered my arrest after a campaign of massive complaints from Sánchez’s entourage after my meeting with Begoña Gómez. The Government uses justice to persecute its rivals for no reason, but then they become victimized when they judge their corruption. Not a step back,” reads the message in
And, already this Wednesday night, he has once again turned to the networks to broadcast a video in which he assures that he is not going to turn himself in to the police and laments: “They have not communicated anything to me or my lawyer. We do not know the reasons why they want to arrest me. The only thing I know is that they have already gone to my workplace, they have gone to my house and they are trying to look for me throughout Madrid to take me to the cell.” The agitator attributes the decision to the Government, which was ordered by a judge as Quiles himself has previously stated on social networks, and slides between several false assertions – such as that the case of former President Zapatero’s jewelery is not being investigated or that the PSOE has more defendants than deputies – that the decision derives from his encounter with Begoña Gómez, who reported him for assault in May. And this despite the fact that that case has been filed. “The Government wants the photo of my arrest and obviously we are not going to give it to them. Keep looking!”, concludes Quiles.
Juan Gonzalo Ospina, the agitator’s lawyer, has confirmed to EL PAÍS the search and arrest order, which he has described as “a disproportionate measure.” “It is absurd because they could have notified him or the attorney, or gone to the private address, not the company’s,” says the criminal lawyer, who has claimed not to know from which of the “five cases” opened by the justice system against the agitator the measure derives from.
Last May, Renfe took legal action against Quiles for an alleged crime of fraud, based on three facts: that the agitator had repeatedly traveled complete routes even though he had purchased tickets for only part of the route, for using VIP rooms to which he did not have authorized access and for causing reputational damage to the railway company. The case is being investigated by a court in Alicante.
Quiles is also accused of an alleged hate crime against a person with a disability who in 2024 demonstrated against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The Prosecutor’s Office requests two years in prison for him and his disqualification from practicing journalism for five years.
The agitator is also prosecuted for an alleged crime of revealing secrets and harassment against the president of Red Eléctrica de España (REE), Beatriz Corredor, for disseminating on social networks the address of her home and photographs of the property, days after the great blackout of April 28, 2025. The case is being investigated by the Court of Instruction Number 23 of Madrid (now called the Investigation Section of the Court of Instance), before which the agitator appeared on April 7. April to give evidence.
In addition, he is being prosecuted in a process being investigated by Plaza 18 of the Court of Instance of Seville, whose owner decided to investigate him for an alleged crime of insults and slander for the messages and publications he issued against the general secretary of the consumer organization Facua, Rubén Sánchez. The private prosecution requests nine years in prison for the agitator for three continuous crimes of slander with the aggravating circumstance of ideological hatred. The prosecution points out that these slanders were committed in conjunction with two crimes of libel with publicity, for which they demand a total of 60,000 euros in compensation (20 euros a day for 20 months) and that the accused be disqualified from carrying out any activity linked to the exercise of journalism during that period, in addition to publishing a video on his social networks and on EDATV – in which he broadcast part of those allegedly insulting messages -, reading of the failure. The complainant, Rubén Sánchez, has indicated in X that the alleged search and arrest warrant does not derive from this case.
The agitator has also been the protagonist of other cases, which have been archived. On May 21, a judge in Majadahonda (Madrid) filed the complaint filed by the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, for harassment when Gómez was in a restaurant. “The viewing that has been provided to this court has not proven that there was such shaking or that he put his arm around the complainant,” adds the resolution, to which EL PAÍS accessed. The PP, which had counted on Quiles in its closing act of the electoral campaign in Aragon, came out to defend him, ensuring that the attacked was him, “a journalist.” The PSOE denounced that Quiles used a PP office to record a video against Gómez.
Days before Begoña Gómez’s complaint, on May 8, the head of the Investigative Court Number 23 of Madrid filed another open case for alleged harassment and injuries to political analyst Sarah Santaolalla at the doors of the Senate on March 2. The PSOE had denounced Quiles at a Madrid police station after the “harassment” and “harassment” of several senators and Santaolalla after an event on equality in the upper house. The instructor made the decision to file the case after analyzing the “complete images recorded by the Senate security cameras” which include the “complete sequence” from when Santaolalla leaves the building until he gets into the car. And he concluded that “there is no evidence of aggression on the part of the person under investigation.”
Another complaint against the agitator filed after publishing on his Instagram account a message addressed to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, after the US operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early January also ended up on file. “Dear President Donald Trump, ours sleeps here,” Quiles published along with an aerial photograph of the La Moncloa Palace, seat of the presidency of the Government, with an arrow pointing to the location of the presidential complex. The Elche-Orihuela Prosecutor’s Office filed it on April 24, considering that no crimes of treason, against the institutional order, illegal detention or against the State institutions that the complaint attributed to him had been committed.
Last May, Congress withdrew Quiles’s press accreditation for three months, after recording with his cell phone and then broadcasting images last December of former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in an area of the Chamber not permitted for this, although he accumulated other complaints. The governing body of Congress, with the support of the majority of PSOE and Sumar, had already provisionally suspended on May 13 his credentials and that of the also agitator Bertrand Ndongo, applying the Law of Common Procedure of Public Administrations to them due to the succession of altercations that they have been involved in in recent months.
