Mikel Iturgaiz, son of the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, has returned to suffer a new episode of harassment and threats from a group of people, on this occasion at a party in the Getxo neighborhood of Romo, in Vizcaya, while a friend of hers has received a slap in the face when she came out in her defense.
Precisely, the son of Carlos Iturgaiz was subjected to insults and death threats also in June 2021 in the Biscayan town of Gernika when he was playing a soccer match. A group of people yelled at him, “Fucking fachita, we are going to kill you», «we are going to burn you alive with your father». The arbitration report stated that, during the match, he continued to be harassed and that, at the end of the game, he had to leave protected by his teammates to get to the locker room because they tried to attack him.
According to the young man in the complaint he filed today with the Ertzaintza, the new threats They occurred around six this morning, when a group of people addressed him at the Algorta festival site to threaten and insult him “because of his political affiliation.”
Thanks to your love, support and affection, I have better coped with this new display of intolerance and harassment. It is not about being heroes, but about being able to think, feel and move freely around any corner of Euskadi. Something that, in sight, some of us still cannot even imagine
– Mikel Iturgaiz (@mikel_iturgaiz) August 5, 2022
The girl who accompanied him has also told the agents that, when she came out in his defense, received a slap in the face. Carlos Iturgaiz’s son has been able to identify some of the aggressors and the Ertzaintza has already opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the incident.
The Guecho PP has been the first to denounce these events this Friday morning. The spokesman for the popular in the Biscayan municipality, Eduardo Andradehas criticized the insults received by Mikel Iturgaiz, son of the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, at parties in the Romo neighborhood of the Biscayan town, as well as those uttered against the Ertzaintza on posters placed in the municipality.
Subsequently, the general secretary of the PP in Euskadi, Laura Garrido, has considered that this is a «fascism sign in a pure state against us the Police, the Ertzaintza, and the son of the president of the Basque PP ». “We demand the unanimous condemnation of these acts and that the perpetrators be brought to justice. antidemocrats of the abertzale left», he has claimed.
Condemnation of the Basque Government
From the Basque Government, the Lehendakari himself, Iñigo Urkullu, has shown his rejection and condemns the threats against Mikel Iturgaiz. “All aggression, whether physical or verbal, threats and insults are inadmissible», he assured.
Urkullu stressed that “the feeling of the vast majority of Basque society against this type of behavior is indisputable and the rejection is absolute.” “This is how we must continue to demonstrate it on every occasion of intolerance that occurs,” he added.
The Lehendakari has also transmitted to the president of the Basque PP, Carlos Iturgaiz, his condemnation of these actsand her solidarity with her son, Mikel, and with her friend, who has received a slap in the face when coming out in her defense.
The vice-lehendakari and Security Councilor, Josu Erkoreka, has also contacted the leader of the Euskadi Popular Party to transfer him “commitment” of the Ertzaintza in «the fight against hate crimes».
Erkoreka has described “unacceptable and sectarian” the threats to Mikel Iturgaiz, which he has condemned “outright”, and has shown his “affection” and solidarity to the son of Carlos Iturgaiz and his friend, who was attacked. In addition, she has extended her support to the entire PP in the Basque Country.
The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has also condemned these events and has stated that his party will always defend that “the public space belongs to everyone in democracy, even more so in Euskadi”, with all that the Basques have lived through and what has yet to be built after decades of terrorist violence by ETA. “My solidarity and that of Basque socialism with Mikel Iturgaiz, Carlos Iturgaiz and his entire family,” he said.