Terrassa municipal police this Thursday morning arrested a man who was standing next to a Vox tent in Terrassa and who is accused of threatening with a knife another person who had been shouting “fascists”. The events date back to this Thursday afternoon, at the intersection of Rambla d’Ègara and Iscle Soler street in the city of Barcelona. There, supporters and militants of the Ultra Vox party urged residents walking along the Rambla to vote for next Sunday’s general election.
As pointed out by EL PAÍS Marc Ferrer, spokesman for the self-proclaimed Unit Against Fascism and Racism of Terrassa (UCFR), a neighbor of those walking next to the tent insulted the members of the Ultra group, shouting at them: “Fascists.” Get out”. “At that moment, a man standing next to the tent pulled out a knife and threatened and tried to stab the neighbor who had shouted at him several times,” denounces Ferrer.
While he was trying to avoid the knife, a municipal police vehicle drove down the Rambla d’Ègara and arrested the attacker. The person was charged with a crime of threatening with a knife and the person who was attacked has filed a complaint against the Vox supporter. The UCFR called a protest rally outside Terrassa City Council this afternoon to denounce the attack.
Vox wanted to make it clear in a statement that the attacker was not a “fighter” in the Ultra formation. “We in the party regret the brawl that took place many meters from the tent that the group set up in the community and we do not know the reasons for it,” the formation said. “Vox regrets the use of this awkward event, which is being used selfishly to spread lies about our political formation,” the document stresses. The party uses the statement to denounce the “unsustainable insecurity that Terrassa and other municipalities and the neighborhood of Catalonia are suffering”, a statement that is not accompanied by any data.
Garriga comes off the stage in the middle of a Vox rally in Badalona to confront a group of protesters with LGTBIQ+ flagshttps://t.co/457wUY08WN
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Last Sunday, Vox general secretary Ignacio Garriga interrupted a rally in Badalona and, accompanied by several bodyguards, went to a group of people protesting with signs and Lgtbi+ flags. Garriga violently confronted a group of protesters, always accompanied by his bodyguards and amid attempts by the Mossos d’Esquadra to calm the situation.
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