The National Police are investigating a suspected group attack that occurred last Saturday evening in Castellón, during the first weekend of Magdalena celebrations, in which a 32-year-old man was seriously injured and remains stationed at the police unit. Intensive care unit in the city general hospital with a cautious prognosis. It is not yet known whether there have been any arrests.
Police and medical personnel traveled to the scene of the accident around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday after receiving an emergency report alerting them to a mass brawl with one injured person near Plaza Isabel la Católica. Several groups meet during the festival week in the city.
According to eyewitnesses, the young man who was attacked was on Arquitecto Maristany Street, an extension of 9 de Marzo Street, when he was surprised by the group of attackers, made up of 25 to 30 members, “with links to the extreme right”. was loaded with poles and sticks.
The injured man was not a member of any of the groups based in the area, “he is a resident of Vila-real who was spending the holidays, but he experienced the worst because he was on the street where the group was. ” entered; “He immediately fell to the ground after being hit with a pole, while about ten or twelve continued to beat him,” they say from another neighboring group, where some of the people who came to the victim's defense took refuge and made the decision to close the doors to the building. His premises after what happened. “They’re killing each other out there,” they told us. The trail of blood left by the attack could still be seen on Monday.
The same sources assure that the incident has an ideological background and that the aim of the suspected attackers, whose identity has not been revealed, was to reach the headquarters of La Cosa Nostra colla, an anti-fascist collective on Sant Miquel street. , just meters from where the massive beating took place. This group blamed the far right for the attack. “Faced with a united, happy and fighting people, they will be unable to do anything. We clearly understand that to resist is to win,” they said in a statement on their social networks. “Thank you and much love and respect for those who risk their freedom and especially their bodies not to give in and face yesterday’s reaction.” […] “tried to stop a critical, supportive and anti-fascist Castellón.”
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They will not be able to withstand a poor, joyful and combative unit. We clearly understand that resistance is victory. Thank you and much love to those who play their freedom and all the effort not to give in and face the reaction that will test them both pic.twitter.com/2p2Bn5zAR1
— La Cosa Nostra Castelló Antifa Social Club (@LaCosaNostraCS) March 4, 2024
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According to witnesses, those who came to the aid of the attacked man managed to divert the attackers' path and prevented them from entering the premises of the above-mentioned group, which was busy at the time. Several concerts were planned for Saturday evening as part of the Magdalena Insurrecta organized by the collective.