A man with hood attacks the PSOE headquarters in Cantabria with homemade explosives | Spain

The PSOE suffered on Friday afternoon an attack against its headquarters in Cantabria which marks a milestone in the severity of the acts, threats and attacks that the game has suffered in the last year and a half. A man with a hood launched two bottles with “homemade explosives” inside the headquarters, in Santander, while an act of democratic memory was celebrated, as the socialists reported.

The man broke towards the auditorium, where the territorial leader of the party, Pedro Casares, held a speech to about 70 militants and supporters, and left two bottles with a flammable liquid. A woman reacted quickly and brought the bottles outside the house of the city, where they exploded without causing serious damage according to the witnesses. The bottles were made of plastic and transported the message “in front of the removal is PSOE = Satan”. An affiliate took the bottles abroad before he exploded during an act of democratic memory with almost one hundred participants. Apparently the bottles contained water or engravings and silver paper balls, whose chemical reaction causes an explosion.

For the PSOE, the attack “raises violence” Ultra harassment suffered from the beginning of the legislator “To the attack category.” “In the face of violence and hatred, we will reply with memory, respect and justice. Psoe will continue to claim the right to remember and honor those who have fought for democracy. A hug to his companions”, the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, in his report in X.

Like the party leader, other leaders such as Pilar Alegría have transmitted their “affection” to their party partners: “Given the insults and hatred, we will always reply with more democracy, more respect and more memory. Not a step back”, the executive spokesman, the Minister of Education and the Secretary General of the PSOE of Aragon have pronounced. “That the violent and reactionaries know that they will not impose their hatred for the Democrats,” Armengol, president of the congress and secretary general in the Balearic Islands, detached France. “According to winds and then the storms come. The behavior of a right that uses an increasingly violent and afflicted tone of disqualifications to the PSOE is absolutely intolerable. All solidarity with the companions of Cantabria,” said Oscar Puente, Minister of Transport and Provincial Secretary of Valladolide.

The PSOE groups have undergone more than 150 attacks throughout Spain and the positions of all ranks of the main government party continue to receive insults and threats per year and a half after the investiture of Sánchez. In May it will be satisfied The first anniversary of the law of amnesty. “We are tired of the daily cataract of insults that are poured against PSOE, their positions, affiliated and voters from the popular party and from the ultras. The voltage and those bad articles are the reproductive soil for the people enhanced to take the alleged justice at the hand,” said Psoe in a note. The president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, expressed his “absolute condemnation of the acts of terrorism” and his “solidarity with victims” in a message on social networks.

The Cantabrian Federation was celebrating the act Of respect memory To claim the change of name of 18 roads of Santander who maintained their Francoist nomenclature, in which the general manager of attention to the victims of the government of Spain, Zoraida Niñosa and the historian Antonio Santoveña participated. “In front of the radicals and violent who want to be silent, we will raise the even stronger voice in defense of a free and democratic society,” said Casares, who was elected new secretary general in his community in February. “These attacks reiterate us in the importance of continuing to claim the democratic memory that makes society freer, more decent and more worthy,” he said.

The facts were immediately reported to the National Police, who moved to the PSOE headquarters in Cantabria to collect the evidence of these violent facts and the images of the security cameras. The Cantabri socialists will focus this Saturday at their headquarters in the regional capital in repulsion of the last case of violence against the party.