The Civil Guard has already arrested three people allegedly involved in the altercations that took place in Paiporta last Sunday, during the visit of the King and Queen, the President of the Government and the President of the Republic of Spain. president of the Valencian Community. One of the detainees was taken to court on Tuesday night and has been released without charges as accused in a case of attack, public disorder and damage. The other two have been arrested this Wednesday and both are pending to be brought to court.
Sources of the Ministry of Interior have clarified that the three detainees are “allegedly related to damage to the vehicle of the President of the Government and another of his bodyguard”. The judge on duty in Torrent has provisionally released the man arrested on Tuesday by the Guardia Civil after hitting a car of Pedro Sanchez’s entourage with a broom last Sunday in Paiporta (Valencia).
The detainee, whose initials are D.C.C., is a resident of Paiporta. He is a man of 41 years oldand is not known to be linked to any ultra group.
He is accused of one count of assault and one count of public disorder.but the instructor of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Torrent has decided to release him without imposing precautionary measures, “although the arrestee continues to be investigated in the framework of preliminary proceedings opened to investigate the facts”. This Tuesday there were two other arrests and the Civil Guard continues investigating the events that occurred on Sunday in Paiporta, ground zero of the tragedy.
During the visit of Pedro Sánchez, Carlos Mazón and King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the area, several citizens insulted, shouted and threw different objects against the authorities. One of the objects, apparently a stick, hit the back of the President of the Governmentwho was evacuated from the area immediately. Precisely then, while Sanchez’s motorcade was leaving the place, several citizens hit two of the cars.
In the following days, the head of the Executive has alluded to “perfectly organized ultras groups”He has asked to differentiate the “legitimate anger” of the neighbors from the attacks that are now being investigated. However, up to this point the Guardia Civil has not pointed to any organized group that was behind the altercations.