Zarautz’s gaztetxe Hiruputzu has denied that Inaxio Illarramendi was the victim of an episode of intimidation and that he was expelled from the place. The Zarautz City Council government team, in turn, has expressed its “strongest condemnation” of this “attack”.
The second deputy mayor, councilor and spokesperson of the PSE-EE of Zarautz, Inaxio Illarramendihas reported experiencing harassment in the city’s Hiruputzu gaztetxe last Saturday.
According to the story of socialist councilorLast Saturday he went to the gaztetxe to attend a concert with some friends and his girlfriend, when two persons approached him from behind and told him that “he was not welcome” and urged him to leave the premises.
Hiruputzu has declared through a statement that it is not true that the PSE-EE councilor was expelled from the seat, nor that it was done in the name of the gaztetxe or in the name of any other group. He has also denied that he was the victim of an episode of harassment or assault. In any case, he recalled that the PSE-EE voted against a new gaztetxe in the Zarautz municipal council. That is why he understands that a socialist official is told that this is not his place.
For its part, the government team of the Zarautz Municipal Council has condemned the “intimidation” that Inaxio Illarramendi received on Saturday evening at the Gaztetxe municipal building.
The statement says PNV and PSE-EE They expressed their “strongest condemnation” of this “attack” on Illarramendi because he was “an official democratically elected by the people of Zarautz”.
“Inaxio Illarramendi Lizarreta has the full support of all members of the government of the Zarautz Municipal Council in light of this unfortunate situation that represented an unacceptable attack on him and on the democratic values of the position,” they stressed.
For his part, EH Bildu has published a note denouncing the expulsion of the Socialist councilor from the gaztetxe and expressing its “support” for Illarramendi, as “what he has suffered is unacceptable”.
Likewise, the sovereigntist formation has assured that the gaztetxes are “open, free spaces and based on mutual respect” and are “even more of a public building.” In this sense, he demands that “this does not happen again.”
On the other hand, the Secretary General of the PSE-EE, Eneko Anduezathis morning in Euskadi Irratia denounced the intimidation suffered by the socialist councilor of Zarautz, Inaxio Illarramendi, in the city’s gaztetxe. According to him, it is “unbelievable” that a young man cannot enter a hall because he is a socialist. Moreover, according to him, voting against the gaztetxe does not affect rights. “We all have the right to live in freedom and that has been an undemocratic stance,” he added.
Source: EITB
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