The Basque PP denounces that "EH Bildu's background is violence" after not condemning the attack on Mikel Iturgaiz

The Basque PP has denounced that "the background of EH Bildu is violence" after the coalition's refusal to condemn the threats and attacks suffered by

in the early hours of August 5.

All the parties of the Getxo City Council -except the sovereignist coalition led by

have expressed their "condemnation and rejection" of the coercion.

insults and for the cake that an Iturgaiz companion received from some radicals who identified him as the son of the president of the Basque PP.

Mikel Iturgaiz reported the events to the Ertzaintza, which has launched an investigation to identify the perpetrators.

EH Bildu has once again avoided the condemnation of an act of violence carried out by radical sympathizers and has limited himself to abstaining during the celebration of the Spokespersons' Meeting convened by the PNV after the aggression against Iturgaiz and his companions was made public.

The son of the president of the Basque PP went in the early hours of August 5 to the txosnas area of ​​the Romo neighborhood festivities in Getxo (Vizcaya).

There he was identified and singled out by an individual who also described him as a "face" before other individuals joined in the ideological harassment.

The PP spokesman in Getxo Eduardo Andrade confirmed after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons that "it is a shame that EH Bildu puts himself in profile" in the face of this type of aggression.

Andrade has shown that he and the residents of Getxo are fed up with EH Bildu's public position regarding violence.

And he has interpreted the abstention as the confirmation that "at the bottom of EH Bildu is violence no matter how much they try to whitewash it".

EH Bildu from Getxo has limited himself in the days prior to the holding of this extraordinary meeting to showing on social networks that he is against "any attack".

In the statement approved this morning, Getxo City Council recognizes the "ideological harassment" suffered by Iturgaiz and makes public its "closeness and support" to the family of the young resident of this Biscayan town.

Mikel Iturgaiz publicly denounced the latest episode of threats and coercion that included a cake against one of his companions who tried to protect him when they were surrounded.

The Getxo PNV and nationalist institutional officials headed by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu publicly expressed their condemnation of this type of aggression that

have also suffered .

The Biscayan Consistory is also "strongly opposed" to the campaign of harassment suffered by the Ertzaintza in several Basque municipalities and which has been denounced by the Vice-Lehendakari and Security Councilor Josu Erkoreka.

At least two ertzainas have suffered their signaling, attempted exclusion and aggression from the festivals of

.

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