The shooting that made Vox win for the first time in a municipality of Catalonia

BarcelonaIn the last general elections, the surprise was provided by Sant Jaume de Frontanyà, which went from being the second municipality to hold a referendum for independence in 2009 to being the only one where Vox won. The victory of the extreme right in the second smallest village in Catalonia was explained by an incident that had shaken the town less than a month earlier. A man of Maghrebi origin barricaded himself in the farmhouse he was occupying and began firing a pellet gun at the neighbor from the next-door farmhouse because, according to some neighbors, he was making his life impossible.

The victim, who received about forty pellet shots, was the son of the mayor, Manel Anselmo, and is one of the two government councilors for the PSC, the only one who ran in the municipal elections. That event, which ended with the man in prison and a Mossos officer wounded after negotiations failed, led a good part of the family to vote for Santiago Abascal, due to his promise of a hard line against immigration and squatting.

In conversation with ARA, the victim confirmed that he was one of the six people who had voted for Vox, which prevailed over the two votes received by the PSC and the single vote obtained by the PP, ERC, and Junts. “I am not hiding it; I cast a protest vote for everything that happened, because my name and my father’s name appeared in the media, but the aggressor was not talked about,” stated Anselmo.

The victim denied that his entire family voted for Vox, but some neighbors recalled that the PSC had only received two votes when they had received nine in the municipal elections, and that there were only two voters they knew to be anti-communist and anti-independence. Therefore, they deduced that four votes had come from that family. Be that as it may, the one who was most surprised was Vox, who could not believe they had won in a town in Catalonia.