'Abertzales' groups attack the municipal government of Pamplona in a Sanfermines procession that ends with three injured policemen

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Three municipal police officers have been injured in the incidents recorded early this afternoon at the end of the

when the

accompanied the

to the

and was attacked.

"The Corporation, the Cathedral Chapter and the rest of the entourage have suffered a fascist aggression carried out by the nationalist left

the way up Curia Street," says a statement from the Board of Spokespersons approved by Navarra Suma and

, which As specified, it has had the vote against

and the abstention of EH Bildu.

"In it it is emphasized that "only the brave and professional action of the

, supported by agents from other Spanish towns, has prevented a real lynching of the councilors of Navarra Suma and the Socialist Party of Navarra and, especially, of the mayor , priority objective of perfectly organized aggressors".

Three Municipal Police officers have been injured to varying degrees in the face, ankle and nose, the latter at this time in the operating room.

Acts that the Board of Spokespersons of the Pamplona City Council "condemns without palliatives", while showing its "gratitude" to the agents who have participated in the device and its "support and solidarity to the injured policemen".

The mayor of Pamplona Enrique Maya, during the moments of tension experienced in Curia Street. Jesus DigesEFE

After the incidents, the mayor of Pamplona,

(Navarra Suma), has denounced in statements to Efe the "fascism" that has led to the aggression against the municipal corporation, an act that "exceeds all limits".

"It was a very prepared attack", something "very organized", which "was noticeable in the atmosphere" at the end of the mass in honor of San Fermín, it was "a strange atmosphere" with "permanent insults, especially towards me ", he said, and added that upon reaching the final stretch of the procession, on Curia Street, when the City Council accompanies the council to the cathedral, it has already been "unbearable".

Maya has described what happened as "fascism" and has commented that "they were waiting for some specific councilors to harass them, with a councilor lying on the ground because she fell", events that in her opinion "are already past dark brown" and that people of different ages have starred because "someone with a gray mustache who was a little young man has sneaked up next to me."

"They had hate on their faces"

They had "hatred in their faces", it has been "almost like a lynching", he added, while denouncing that those responsible are "from Bildu's environment".

"They had everything organized", with printing papers and banners, Maya has said, and someone "heard" the

spokesman in Pamplona,

, "saying that we were doing little theater".

For Enrique Maya, they were the ones who "had been warming up the atmosphere for a long time", something that he lamented when the parties "went wonderfully", and he has asserted that these incidents "are repeated, but not with this aggressiveness".

"And the most serious thing is that in a democratic city like this there are people on the street who are going to hunt down and lynch some councillors. It doesn't sound like it happens in other cities in Spain, but it's happening here", stressed the mayor of Pamplona , who in less than two hours will preside over the bullfight on San Fermín and is already waiting for "a whistle because they don't accept democracy."

In this sense, he pointed out that these are situations that "hurt" but this afternoon he wanted to thank above all that sentiment the work of the Pamplona Municipal Police and other local police forces that are currently in the capital of Navarra because "without them I don't know how this would have ended."

Agents of the Municipal Police of Pamplona, ​​during the struggles. EFE

Bildu "regrets" the attacks "out of place"

The municipal group of EH Bildu in the Pamplona City Council regrets the incidents that occurred in the San Fermín procession as it passed through Curia Street, "aggressions that can in no way be justified".

"The attacks are out of place," says the nationalist coalition in a statement, in which it adds that "one thing is political criticism and another is aggression."

After expressing his "solidarity with all the people who have been injured", among which he refers to "two agents of the Municipal Police and some member of the Corporation", EH Bildu underlines "the good progress of the procession" on the second day of Sanfermines and thanks "the good general atmosphere that has been felt throughout the event".

"A festive, vindictive atmosphere, which has been characterized by the participation of Pamploneses and Pamploneses", he affirms before "encouraging citizens to enjoy the festivities".

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