The European Union unelected institutions refuse to comment on the disturbing political violence and assault on democracy taking place in Spain.

On April 7, in Madrid, an open-air event organised by the nationalist VOX party to present its candidates for the May 4 regional elections was viciously attacked by left-wingers ordered by their commanders to block VOX legal right to hold a campaign event.

The leftists responded to calls from left-wing parties in the Madrid Assembly, including the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and far-left Unidas Podemos alliance of former deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias.

The armed ambush ended with dozens of members and supporters of Santiago Abascal’s party injured. Sufficient police forces had been dispatched to secure the event but directed by the Marxist regime the police allowed the leftist gangs to get close enough to the attendees to stones, bricks, bottles, and other blunt objects. Among the many participants in that Vox meeting who had to be hospitalised, there was even a member of parliament.

Now police officers in charge of securing the campaign rally accuse the notorious Marxist Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska of deliberately allowing the leftist marauders to storm the well-attended right-wing rally.

Disturbingly, another member of the Madrid regime, Irene Montero of Podemos lent her support to the violence against VOX by praising leftist thugs ‘who defend their neighbourhoods against racists, LGBT-phobes and machos.’

Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias, who was still deputy prime minister until March 31, justified the violence on the grounds that VOX means ‘fascism’ so it is ‘not a respectable option’. As before during the far-left violence that rocked Catalonia in February and March, the promoters of violence against the conservatives came directly from the leaders of one of the two parties in Sánchez’s governing coalition.

However, if the police officers in charge of securing the Vox election rally in Madrid are to be believed, what is new is that a minister from Sánchez’s far-left PSOE party also took direct responsibility for the violence by forbidding the police to keep the left-wing radicals at a sufficient distance from VOX supporters.

It is not the first time Fernando Grande-Marlaska has shown his profound disrespect for democracy and the rule of law. In May 2020, he illegally dismissed Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos from the post of head of the Madrid Civil Guard Command.

The Civil Guard colonel was refusing to pass on information about an ongoing court investigation into the government’s decision to allow feminist protests on March 8, 2020. Pérez de los Cobos simply did not have the right to pass on this information to the government.

On March 31 this year, the National High Court ruled that the minister’s decision was illegal. The Civil Guard officer had been dismissed from his post simply because he had obeyed the law and the orders of the investigating judge.

The relationship between the Sánchez regime and Spain’s judiciary is a matter of argument in Spain, although it is not discussed in Brussels.

The day after the violence in Madrid on April 7, Margarita de la Pisa, a VOX member of the European Parliament who was present during the events, testified to the seriousness of the situation in her country:

‘Yesterday was horrible. We were all surprised because yesterday in Madrid we experienced the same violence as in Catalonia before. We are very shocked. I think it is always the same people moving from one place to another, but in Madrid, until now it seemed that we were protected, and yesterday was very shocking because there were almost 30 injured. Stones and bricks were being thrown, some had sticks. The police allowed the aggressors to be very close to us.

‘It seems that the issue of left-wing violence against us is getting worse. What happened yesterday was very sad. To see in Madrid the same hatred and rancour towards people [as in Catalonia and the Basque Country, who in this case are us, but who represent the opinion of many others, is very serious.

‘We do not understand why we have to receive such intense discriminatory treatment with shouts, stones, sticks, simply for defending values, and I always ask: What is wrong with what we defend? There are many false accusations and false arguments against us.’

As for the role of the Spanish media, de la Pisa explains: ‘The media does not bother to talk about our version and they contribute to spreading lies. They (Media) consider that our way of thinking can be censored because it is not even moral according to their criteria.’

VOX candidate for president of the Madrid region, Rocio Monasterio, is calling for the Podemos far-left party to be banned for its open support for physical violence against conservatives.