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

The PSOE has suffered on Friday afternoon an attack against its headquarters in Cantabria that marks a milestone in the seriousness of the acts vandalism, threats and aggressions that the game has been suffering in the last year and a half. A hooded man has launched two bottles with « homemade explosives » inside the headquarters, in Santander, while an act of democratic memory was celebrated, as the socialists have denounced.

The man broke up to the auditorium, where the territorial leader of the party, Pedro Casares, gave a talk to some 70 militants and supporters, and has left two bottles with a flammable liquid. A woman has reacted rapidly and took the bottles out of the house of the town, where they have exploded without causing great damage according to witnesses. The bottles were made of plastic and carried the message « in front of the removal lies PSOE = Satan ». An affiliate took the bottles abroad before they exploded during an act of democratic memory with almost a hundred attendees. The bottles apparently contained water or etching and silver paper balls, whose chemical reaction causes an explosion.

For the PSOE, the attack « raises violence » The ultra harassment suffered from the beginning of the legislature « To the attack category. » « Faced with violence and hate, we will respond with memory, respect and justice. The PSOE will continue to claim the right to remember and honor those who fought for democracy. A hug to the companions, » the president of the Government and general secretary of the Socialists, Pedro Sánchez, in his account in X. have been solidarity. Government continue to receive insults and threats a year and a half after the investiture of Sánchez. In May it will be fulfilled The first anniversary of the amnesty law. « We are tired of the daily cataract of insults that from the Popular Party and the ultras are poured against the PSOE, their positions, affiliates and voters. The tension and those bad daily articles are the breeding ground for exalted people to take the supposed justice by their hand, » said the PSOE in a statement.

The Cantabrian Federation was celebrating the act Of memory of respect To claim the change of name of 18 streets of Santander that maintained their Francoist nomenclature, in which the general director of attention to the victims of the Government of Spain, Zoraida Niñosa, and the historian Antonio Santoveña participated. « Faced with the radicals and violent who want to shut up, we are going to raise the voice even stronger in defense of a free and democratic society, » said Casares, which in February was elected new secretary general in his community. « These attacks reaffirm us in the importance of continuing to claim the democratic memory that makes freer, more decent and more worthy societies, » he said.

The facts have been immediately denounced to the National Police, which has moved to the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria to collect the evidence of these violent facts and the images of the security cameras. Cantabrian socialists will concentrate this Saturday at their headquarters in the regional capital in repulsion of the last case of violence against the party.