Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Pedro Sánchez SsangYong Rexton Quartz SUV pelted with mud by angry flood citizens during visit in Paiporta, Valencia.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez “received a blow” during a visit to a flood-hit town that was ambushed by a violent mob, a senior minister said Monday.
Sánchez on Sunday joined King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia on a tour of the Valencian town of Paiporta, which was among the hardest hit by devastating floods that have killed more than 200 people and carved a swath of destruction through the south and east of the country.
The prime minister and royals were pelted with mud by angry crowds chanting “Murderers!” One of the vehicles in Sánchez’s motorcade had its windows smashed by a crowd wielding shovels, and protesters threw sticks at Sánchez, forcing his entourage to cut the trip short. READ MORE HERE
Sánchez was struck during the melee, Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska told Spanish media on Monday, and was evacuated by his security team after it determined that the threat to the prime minister was “real and evident.” Marlaska added that the attackers belonged to “violent fringe” groups.
“We will let the investigation take its course … but it is obvious that there was reasonably a minimum of organization on the part of some marginal violent groups that must be condemned in the strongest terms,” Grande-Marlaska said.
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