The PSOE is still under ultra harassment | Spain

The PSOE remains under the ultra harassment despite the fact that a year and a half has passed From the third investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government and when only one month is missing to be fulfilled The first anniversary of the amnesty law. The threats and vexations are less numerous, but they continue to suffer positions of the entire socialist ranking, from Santos Cerdán, secretary of organization of the formation, who has returned to escort as in the times when he was the objective of ETA, to Cristina Díaz, councilor in Jorquera, a small town of 350 inhabitants, who at the end of February denounced in the Commander of the Civil Guard of Albacete. Sprayed with gasoline.

Meanwhile, the preconstitutional flags of Spain and the Falange continue to be the daily stamp that the hundred neo -Nazis and nostalgic of the Francoism that are cited in Ferraz street, at the gates of the parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a few meters from the socialist headquarters – Ran and vulgar anti -Chistas proclamations-. The party has had to adjust to the schedule of the concentrations and has had to advance the departure of its workers. « We continue with the security protocol as if we were in autumn of 2023. If we continued with a normal schedule we would risk very tense situations. Thus we avoid, even in part, the insults and intimidation. That if I have stayed with your face ‘, that if we know where you live’ … », explains an employee of the PSOE central.

Juan Antonio Sagredo, 48, senator and mayor of Paterna (75,000 inhabitants, Valencia) since 2015, which in November He melted in an excited hug With another senator, Gerardo Camps, of the PP, after encouraging “to change the confrontation for the union” before the Dana tragedy, he has not fought from the tense that he intended to stop. The known as Paterna Paredón, Paterna, the place where 2,238 people were shot during the Francoist repressionbetween April 3, 1939, two days after the end of the civil war, and the last execution in 1956, dawned on February 21 desecrated with the painted « Sagredo you are fag and tarado ».

“It is a message of hate and an attack, not against me, but against the municipal government of Paterna, for being a reference that has op The postwar period, ”describes Sagredo. The Municipal Government of the PP in Paterna from 2007 to 2015 opened a single grave and by judicial decision. With Sagredo 40 graves were opened until 2024 and 1,397 bodies have been recovered. Last year the opening work of another 40 much smaller graves began where about 180 victims of the dictatorship are planned. On March 12, almost a month later, the painted began to be cleaned, which required the permission of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana. « We asked that it was as fast as when they painted » Mazón resignation « for the first time in the Palau of the Generalitat, which is also protected. The next day it was already clean, » says the councilor.

« Strong smell of diesel »

130 kilometers from Paterna, Cristina Díaz again confronts, between indignant and incredulous, to an example of intimidation that sounds more typical of self -critics and countries aspiring to democracies of other latitudes. « What happened to me is not an isolated event. I knew that the thing could be tense, but until there … No. And it is no longer just involved, it implies my family. I follow that I do not believe it, » the mayor returns to the night at night from February 20 to 21. “He passed in the family home. That day my brother was. At three in the morning he heard a blow that woke him up and came like a very strong gust of smell of diesel. He got up, he saw nothing and lay down. At 20 minutes he heard the click of a lighter and, when he was already out, he saw about 20 meters a man dressed in black Let’s see if he returned and called the Civil Guard, that about five or six in the morning he arrived and made the crowded.

It is not proposed to resign: “I became a few months before the elections of May 2023, I appeared without any purpose of winning, because here it is impossible, the PP has always been, who took five councilors by the two of the PSOE. I did it so that there was a little opposition. If I renounced my partner, that I was third in the list, and I do not want to leave the other council. The report of the complaint states that the mayor « wants to record that it is not the first time something similar happens. » « On other occasions she has received threats to her and her son, which were verbally notified to the Civil Guard of Jorquera. In December 2023 she suffered an attempt to aggression, which was denounced (…) all this happens since she is a councilor, » he says in the brief. The Councilor’s husband collaborated with the PSOE and came to go on the list in the 2019 elections. “And there were also pressures,” says the councilor. « We were scratched by the car, they painted a wheel, but when the problems left it, » he concludes.

In Ciudad Real, María Montes, councilor, 29 years old and provincial secretary of the Socialist Youth, also filed a complaint against a male connected with Ferraz Resistance Movement, the organized groups of the extreme right that maintain the pressure against the state headquarters of the PSOE. “It all started more than a year ago with the concentrations of National November. He is a person who does not respect anything, who makes the encounter and who increases you, it does not matter if you go with the family or you are in the purchase. Everything under casual meetings. In January I had a serious problem, he left the headquarters and gave him the same thing that was with my minor son. A month later he began to increase me in a supermarket and I called the police. of removal.

In addition to the Crucis via that some socialist paintings suffer, attacks on the venues persist: 157 of the houses of the PSOE town had been vandalized In early March, according to party data. Although most of these violent actions occurred in the days before and after the investiture session of November 2023, there have been subsequent rebounds: on November 20, anniversary of Franco’s death, and in the first days of February, with five acts vandalism in ten days. Since the wave of attacks began, there have been almost 12 a month of Media, according to the count made by Ferraz. In several groups, in addition, violence is repeat offender.

This is the case of the Nájera group, town of La Rioja with 8,000 inhabitants, which has suffered four vandalism. « We have not suffered our fingers a few months. In February, he and another companion of the bench had to be escorted by the Civil Guard protecting them with the shields raised from the municipal plenary in which the budgets were voted. A message circulated on social networks in which they were identified with the following message: « To these two socialists, we will go for them and their families! They will die this week. » « There was a WhatsApp group where we were told that we could not even enter the plenary, the Civil Guard is investigating … here we all know each other and it hurts especially. Because if you live in a city of one million people … but here you put yourself in the face, you enter the bar of one, you go to the watertight of the other, you know the ideas of the people, more or less you have you located, and it cannot be lost that a respect is lost.

A similar calvary suffers in the group of El Ejido, also with four cases. « At the last attack, at the end of last year, the lock broke us. We have installed cameras and denounced it to the National Police, » says his secretary general, José Miguel Alarcón, 65, mayor in the Almeria town of 90,000 inhabitants. “We are fed up with the barbarities that paint us. They have come to put racist messages such as Moors out And, after the Dana, Valencia your grave”

Harassment is reproduced in other town houses, such as Burgos, where daily protests have not ceased. The hundred people who came to congregate in front have been reduced to a dozen, but the tension has not loved. The last severe episode, explains the provincial and spokesman of the federal management, Esther Peña, occurred a month ago, with a young man who covered his face with the hood of his sweatshirt: “There have been cases of people who entered the headquarters to increase. All this has forced the workers to close with a key inside the time when they are alone. bell or stop at the door. ” The insulting or threatening telephone calls, the blows of pedestrians in the windows, the boos and the spit in the crystals are already part of the routine.

The case of the Casa del Pueblo de Béjar (Salamanca, 12,000 inhabitants) deserves separate mention because it is now when it is in the spotlight of the radicals. “We had no problem when the investiture and amnesty. There were a couple of concentrations, but nothing. We suffered anything. On the other hand, we have now vandalized the headquarters in January, we painted the crystals and the blind, they cross the sign and put a sign for me to read whores house and their children. We remove it. We made a silent concentration … and they did the same again, ”says the Secretary General, Antonio Cámara, 57 -year -old state officer, spokesman in the City Council and deputy in the Diputación de Salamanca.“ We are 50 militants and we continue to meet normally, although they intimidate you and of course, people got nervous. But there have been no low affiliates, in fact we have grown a few, ”adds the former mayor.

The four socialist deputies who were already increasing those who launched eggs in a cafeteria near Congress –Among shouts of « traitors, they would have to kill you »– In Sánchez’s last investiture they were called to testify on March 20 in the Courts of Plaza de Castilla. Basque parliamentarians Daniel Senderos Oraá and María Luisa García Gurrutxaga, Valencian Vicent Sarrià Morell and Aragonese Herminio Rufino Sancho Íñiguez are waiting for the date of the trial after the complaint filed against a group of men, whose aggressive and violent attitude forced the police to escort the deputies until Parliament. « You cannot normalize what it is not. I have come to receive anonymous in my house, the right cannot lower importance to such serious facts, » says Rufino.