A young country ertzaina was identified, threatened and assaulted last night in

Vitoria

by at least three individuals who have been arrested.

The aggression with a punch occurred after calling him

"zipaio"

(the insult that Basque policemen have received for decades by radicals) for being in Cuchillería street, an area of ​​​​bars with a great animation last night before the party from Santiago.

The attack on the ertzaina occurs just days after another Basque police officer denounced the veto imposed on him by the organizers of festive events in

Mutriku

.

Young ertzainas have become the targets of radicals who intend to expel them from the festivals of towns and cities recovered after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A young Ertzaina was in Cuchillería street last night when he was insulted by calling him "zipaio" by at least three individuals and one of them punched him.

The aggressors acted against him for being in a public space crowded with young people and during his free time.

The attack has already been condemned by the mayor of Vitoria Gorka Urtaran who, in addition, has lamented that it occurs when the city prepares for the start of the festivities on August 4.

The area where the attack took place constitutes a space in which young radicals have already carried out other attacks such as the one suffered by the former Basque PP councilor

Iñaki García Calvo

.

On May 30 of last year, García Calvo was beaten after being identified as a member of the PP.

Earlier they had sprayed him with two mugs of beer and kalimotxo to get him to leave Cuchillería Street.

The aggression against the young Basque policeman in Vitoria is added to the veto suffered by an ertzaina in Mutriku by the organizers of the 'Young People's Day' events in the patron saint festivities.

The Basque police publicly denounced that they had banned him from the popular meal to which he had always attended before entering the Ertzaintza and had even warned him not to go to the

txosnas

area , a festive space controlled by the Left Abertzale in which this year a battle is waged between the youth of Sortu -Arnaldo Otegi's party- and the young 'communists' grouped in Gazte Koordinadora Sozialista (Basque Socialist Coordinator, in Basque).

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