Iker Jiménez has converted the V anniversary of OKBALEARES into the launch of a permanent defensive formation: a 2,500-strong volunteer brigade trained to inspect, catalogue and publicly evaluate every peine in the Balearic Islands, following his warning that if anything happens to his team, some people will learn exactly what a peine is worth.
The unit, drawn from the audience at a packed Palau de Congresos in Palma, now operates in eight-hour shifts at roundabouts, ferry terminals and the entrances to television studios. Volunteers carry standard-issue combs and magnifying glasses, stopping passers-by to ask whether they have recently edited a seven-second clip of Carmen Porter saying «hasta luego, Mari Carmen» and whether they understand the consequences.
«We are not being dramatic,» Jiménez said. «We are simply ensuring that from now on, anyone who trims a clip to suggest we laughed at a tragedy will first have to sit through a full demonstration of what a peine is worth, conducted by people who have practised.»
Bea Talegón has been appointed head of the brigade's Palma chapter. She said the first week would focus on «the tuiteros bots de siempre, lameculos, lacayos al servicio de quien les paga», who would be invited to a public ceremony where a giant peine is passed hand to hand across the city.
By Thursday, the brigade had expanded to the mainland, with units forming outside the Congress of Deputies. Organisers said the invitation to Pedro Sánchez remains open, but now includes a mandatory peine inspection before any face-to-face meeting.