The young man who attacked Rajoy in 2015 attacks a journalist from La Voz de Galicia.

The young man who attacked Rajoy in 2015 attacks a

A journalist from the newspaper La Voz de Galicia was attacked this Friday in the newspaper’s newsroom in Pontevedra. After two o’clock in the afternoon, a man went to the headquarters where a worker and a worker were staying. The alleged 25-year-old attacker is the same person who attacked Mariano Rajoy in the Galician city of Lérez in 2015. That afternoon, he was holding a knife with which he wounded journalist Alfredo López Penide when he tried to defend himself, according to a spokeswoman for the Pontevedra National Police. The reporter and editor for events and courts in Pontevedra suffered “minor” injuries to his arm while trying to defend himself. The attacker also destroyed computers, the newspaper itself confirmed in a report.

According to La Voz de Galicia, the detainee appeared at the Rosalía de Castro street office and was visibly upset: he began hitting the computers and other effects of the installations with a rolling pin. He told them that his appearance was a reaction to the publication of the news two days ago in this newspaper that the young man who had beaten Mariano Rajoy was convicted of another attack in Ourense.

The attacker, VF’s Andrés, is the same person who was arrested in 2015 after punching and injuring the then Prime Minister in the face. The police officers arrested him, but it took six officers to intervene in order for him to refute his position, the regional newspaper said. After his arrest, the attacker was transferred to the Psychiatric Unit at Pontevedra Hospital Complex (CHOP). The journalist, “who suffered injuries to his hand and chest”, is being treated at the Montecelo de Lérez hospital, according to La Voz de Galicia. [Actualización 21:00: el compañero periodista de la delegación en Pontevedra, Christian Casares, ha confirmado a La Sexta que a Penide “ya le han dado el alta, con una herida en una mano con 10 puntos” y otras contusiones derivadas de haberse defendido del ataque. También asegura que familiares del atacante se han puesto en contacto con el periódico para “lamentar los hechos y pedir disculpas”].

Mariano Rajoy, attacked by VF’s Andrés during an election campaign in Pontevedra in 2015. At his side, the current leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

In 2015, the now 25-year-old was 17 when he attacked Rajoy. The then Prime Minister and PP candidate for re-election – the elections took place in December and the PP won – walked through the center of Pontevedra in the middle of the election campaign. Andrés VF approached the politician to ask for a photo and shortly afterwards he slapped him in the face. When he was arrested, agents asked him why he did it, and he replied, “He hit him because he had two salaries.”

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The juvenile court of Pontevedra sentenced Andrés VF to two years in prison in a closed regime for committing an assault crime, recalls La Voz de Galicia. He was arrested again four years later for hitting a Vox leader, but the case was settled with a settlement between the parties. Still, at the end of 2019, a court in the city of Lérez convicted him of injuries, the Galician newspaper adds.

A third arrest was made in 2020. National Police officers accused him of assaulting a customer at a bar in Ourense. He was put on trial two days ago and the young man admitted the facts and accepted the agreed sentence, taking into account as mitigation that the attacker suffered from a mental disorder, the newspaper said. For these incidents, Andrés VF has to pay a fine of 540 euros for bodily harm and another 90 euros for minor threats to the court. In addition, as civil liability, the perpetrator must compensate the injured party for EUR 2,050.