The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has labeled as a "scoundrel act" that the Government maintains that the disturbances recorded this Saturday in Barcelona "benefit Vox," and has pointed to the "minors" coming "from the Maghreb" as responsible for "a large part of that violence," also attributing to the Executive the blame for having opened the borders "wide open."
"Everyone knows who to look at and who to hold responsible," he stated in an interview on 'Telemadrid' reported by Europa Press, in which he responded to the statements of the Government spokesperson, Elma Saiz, who claimed that "when chaos and hatred are sown, there is always a winner, which is the far right."
The leader of Vox has asserted that the minister is "bad people" because, in his opinion, it is the Government that "is telling the minors from all over the Maghreb that they will be taken care of in Spain," which is why he has pointed to it as "directly responsible" for the incidents that occurred in the Catalan capital, which, he has emphasized, harm "the Spaniards" and "the neighbors of Barcelona."
In this line, Abascal has reiterated that Saiz's words reflect the image of an Executive "absolutely desperate" and "looking for any kind of trick" to "influence" "the electoral outcome."
Likewise, he has reproached the Government Delegation for allowing "calls against Vox's acts" and "violent demonstrations" in which, he has claimed, objects have been thrown "15 meters from the podium." He has held "the militias of Pedro Sánchez" responsible for these episodes, referring to the president of the Government.
In conclusion, he has accused the Secretary General of the PSOE of "uniting all the separatist, terrorist extremists of Spain, self-proclaimed antifas, and groups of young Maghrebis in violence against the opposition."