Dec
18
MADRID — A younger man punched Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy exhausting within the head Wednesday night after managing to get subsequent to him at a marketing campaign look within the northern metropolis the place Rajoy grew up.
The unidentified attacker was standing subsequent to Rajoy on a road within the metropolis of Pontevedra within the Galicia area whereas he talked to a crowd, then pulled his arm again and delivered a punishing left hook to Rajoy’s left examine.
Video on Spanish TV confirmed Rajoy falling towards the bottom from the impression however being propped up by others round him.
Spanish media reported that Rajoy’s attacker was 17. Video confirmed him being detained by safety guards after which taken in handcuffs from a constructing, elevating his palms and thumbs into the air in an obvious victory signal.
Rajoy’s face was bruised in photographs of him after the assault however he didn’t look like significantly injured, although Spanish media stated his glasses have been knocked to the bottom and crushed.
Rajoy later appeared, smiling however with out his glasses, at a marketing campaign look within the close by metropolis of A Coruna.
Improvement Minister Ana Pastor confirmed the assault in a tweet, telling Rajoy she had no phrases “to precise my indignation for the aggression you suffered on the streets of Pontevedra.”
Polls say the Common Social gathering will win in Sunday’s common election however will not regain the bulk it has in parliament following years of unpopular austerity cuts hitting cherished nationwide well being care and public schooling plus tax hikes Rajoy promised he wouldn’t impose earlier than his celebration’s landslide 2011 victory.
Leaders of opposition events making an attempt to wrest energy from Rajoy within the election condemned the assault.
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