Bilbao, December 6 (EFE). – Unidentified people took the Spanish and European flags flying at the entrance to the Bizkaia assembly building in Guernica and painted graffiti on the floor with the inscription “Gurea ikurriña” (Ours, the ikurriña).
In a message on social networks, the vice president of the General Assemblies of Bizkaia, socialist Begoña Gil, condemned the incident.
“My strongest condemnation of those who, without respecting the plurality and diversity of Basque society, without understanding the value of democracy and enforcing their intolerance, destroyed the Gernika Assembly Building, a symbol of exactly the opposite: peace, freedom and coexistence,” he wrote.
In the photos accompanying his message, the aforementioned graffiti can be seen on the floor of the external entrance to the Gernika Board House as well as four poles, two of them without flags.
Sources from the institution and the Basque Ministry of Security told EFE that the Spanish flag and that of the EU were hanging on these two poles, placed near the entrance but already inside the premises of the Parliament building. EFE
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