A campaign rally held by the nationalist-populist VOX party in Madrid came under siege from Antifa militants who hurled projectiles and attacked police on Wednesday.
The right-wing faction, led by Santiago Abascal, has risen to national prominence on a platform opposing mass migration and socialist-globalists currently in power under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
On Wednesday, VOX officials and supporters gathered in Vallecas, a notoriously left-wing barrio of Madrid, to campaign ahead of key local elections in May.
Shortly after the rally began, violent leftists began throwing stones and other objects at the stage while Abascal was speaking.
Vuestra libertad es la de todos los españoles. ¡Viva la liberta! pic.twitter.com/59SHqbWFQp
— Rosa Díez (@rosadiezglez) April 8, 2021
📍 Vallecas (Madrid).
— Rubén Pulido (@rubnpulido) April 7, 2021
Extreme violence against the third political force in Congress is back.
The Government does nothing. The Government crosses its arms before the violent sympathizers of left-wing parties. pic.twitter.com/Lp1C9Vhi6y
Spanish Antifa stoning the police in their attempt to get through to @Santi_ABASCAL, the party leader of Spain’s soon to be second largest party as he speaks in public. #AntifaTerrorists pic.twitter.com/jbmdXiPkrU
— RedPilledPoland (@RedPilledPoland) April 8, 2021
Multiple attendees were seriously injured by thrown objects and some officers were badly beaten.
🔴 Abren la cabeza a un simpatizante de VOX con un ladrillo (IMÁGENES SENSIBLES). pic.twitter.com/Dsr32ddC57
— Alonso 🇪🇸 (@alonso_dm) April 7, 2021
“Pacíficamente” https://t.co/VTYOVivunp pic.twitter.com/fXF4gYQ5rA
— Joven Europeo (@JovenEuropeo) April 7, 2021
"Sánchez and Iglesias, in the Bolivarian style, have wanted to prevent us from speaking in Vallecas where thousands of neighbors vote for us," Abascal wrote on social media after the event. "We have spoken, and we will do so throughout Madrid and throughout Spain."
"Marlasca must answer before a judge: he is guilty of the injuries that his brigadistas have caused."
Sánchez e Iglesias, al estilo bolivariano, han querido impedir que hablemos en Vallecas donde nos votan miles de vecinos
— Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 (@Santi_ABASCAL) April 7, 2021
Hemos hablado.Y lo haremos por todo Madrid y por toda España
Marlasca debe responder ante un juez: es culpable de los heridos que sus brigadistas han causado pic.twitter.com/EQ4EYvTzSU
In one video, a man identified by local media as actor Vicente Gil can be seen waving his middle finger while chanting Antifa slogans before he brutally attacks a man filming the scene with a cell phone.
Un radical de extrema izquierda acosa a la periodista de La Gaceta de la Iberosfera @rebecacrespo_ y agrede a puñetazos a un simpatizante de VOX en Vallecas. pic.twitter.com/oeK9yXccfr
— La Gaceta de la Iberosfera (@gaceta_es) April 7, 2021
A total of 14 people were injured at the event, according to local media.
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