A group of young people confronted the Ertzaintza last night after receiving the order to disperse during the celebration of

the "non-parties" of San Antolín in the Biscayan town of Plentzia.

The agents were attacked with bottles and chairs and responded by throwing foam balls, batting and arresting three individuals, one of them a minor. The incidents in Plentzia occurred just hours after Ertzaintza unions denounced the shortage of staff and lack of material to deal with the attacks suffered by the agents in charge of acting against the

'bottles' with hundreds of young people who follow each other in Euskadi throughout the summer.

The two young men aged 25 and 21 arrested during the clashes will appear before the judge today while the minor will be released while the cleaning services of the Plentzia town hall clean the remains of the pitched battle since the early morning. According to the Ertzaintza, the incidents began at 10:30 pm yesterday when

"hundreds" of young people were in the street drinking

outside the hotel establishments, without masks or measures of social distance.

Members of the Basque Police from the Getxo police station and members of the Mobile Brigade (the Ertzaintza riot police) called on the concentrates to disband, but a group of young people began to throw

"chairs, bottles and other objects"

. The riot control officers used their batons and also threw foam balls at those who remained on the street, some of them on terraces, as seen in videos shared on social networks.

The incidents in Plentzia occur just three days after a girl under 17 years old reported an alleged multiple rape during the early hours of Sunday. The young woman was participating in a bottle next to the breakwater of the beach of this municipality with some friends when, when she was moving away, she was approached by three individuals. The Ertzaintza tries to identify the culprits while all the Basque institutions have publicly demonstrated to reject this sexual assault.

Clashes between young people who participate in illegal bottles and regional and municipal police have multiplied throughout the summer in different Basque towns and, in San Sebastián, they led to acts of looting with the assault of several shops in the center of the Gipuzkoan capital . Plentzia, a coastal town used as a second residence by thousands of Basques, was already the scene last July of fights between young people who gathered at night to, bypassing restrictions, drink alcohol until the wee hours of the morning.

The controversy over the violence in the bottles with attacks on the Police has already caused the first public confrontation between the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu and the spokesman for EH Bildu Arnaldo Otegi.

Urkullu yesterday appealed to "values" to defend respect for authority and insinuated that Otegi had covered the violent acts that occur practically every morning during the summer in the Basque Country with his statements.

The leader of EH Bildu has responded this morning on EiTB calling Urkullu's words "miserable" and assuring that he has rejected these incidents.

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