An egg landed on the head of the PSOE deputy for Aragon Herminio Sancho when he was leaving with three other socialist parliamentarians – the Valencian Vicent Sarrià and the Basques María Luisa García Gurruchaga and Daniel Senderos – from a cafe near their hotel to attend on the second day of Pedro Sánchez's investiture session.
An "ultra and well-organized" aesthetic group, in Sarrià's words, identified them leaving the bar and began to threaten them with all kinds of insults: "pigs", "traitors", "you will take your liver out of the mouth". They photographed them with their cell phones and chased them until two plainclothes police who were in the vicinity of Congress for the wide deployment prevented the threats and egg-throwing from getting worse. "If it's not for the police, we won't get out", deputy Herminio Sancho explained to the journalists covering the investiture.
The agents had to escort them to the entrance of the Lower House while the group, made up of a dozen individuals, followed them and kept insulting them, deputy Vicent Sarrià explained to this newspaper .
Sources from the socialist group in Congress explained that the aggressors were identified by the Police and that the PSOE will file the following complaint.
Already inside the chamber of Congress, the PSOE spokesman, Patxi López, in his turn to intervene in the investiture debate, referred to these facts, for which he held the right wing responsible and in particular the PP for the "harangues" and "lies" that, in his opinion, they have uttered against the socialists due to the "frustration" of not having achieved through the ballot box what they are demanding in the street. "Who sows wind, reaps storms", warned López, who criticized the PP for words addressed to socialists such as "traitors", "tyrants" or "coup d'état".
Although the protests in front of the Carrera de San Jerónimo had a very residual following yesterday, this attack on four PSOE deputies denotes the tense climate that is being experienced these days in the streets of Madrid.
