Graffiti artists call Podemos' leader 'pro-ETA' and 'anti-Spanish'
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 @ 1:24 PM
INSULTING graffiti has appeared all over the outside walls of a television studio where leader of independent party Podemos, Pablo Iglesias was due to start on a morning talk show this week.
The local station headquarters at Telek, in Vallecas (Madrid) bore letters in spray-paint reading, 'Pablo Iglesias, pro-ETA and anti-Spanish', and 'Podemos = $ystem', hinting the burgeoning party which has just acquired five seats in the European Parliament is in collusion with, or 'no better than', the mainstream PSOE and PP whom he refers to as 'The Caste'.
The graffiti is signed off with a reference to the website www.jfe.es, the portal for the Young Falangists, or a new generation of those who were on the side of Franco during the Civil War.
And on the metal blind which covers the entrance door when the building is closed for the night, someone has painted the Falangist symbol of crossed archery arrows.
Iglesias, a 35-year-old lecturer at Madrid's Complutense University with a doctorate in international politics, who lives with his dog in a rented flat on a wage of 900 euros a month, said: “The fact we're the target of attacks like these only goes to show that we're correctly pointing out the cause of Spain's suffering.”
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