The young man who attacked Mariano Rajoy in 2015 was arrested this Friday for attacking a journalist from the Pontevedra branch of La Voz de Galicia with a knife. The victim has been transferred to the Montecelo Hospital after the attack.
Andrés D.V.F., known as ‘Capi’, broke into the newspaper’s office at around 2:00 p.m. armed with a knife and attacked one of the two people who were in the premises at the time.
The journalist, who tried to defend himself from the attack and suffered cuts on one of his forearms and one hand, was treated by an ambulance team and finally transferred to a hospital.
Two of the journalist’s colleagues, who were arriving at the office at that moment, saw how the victim left the premises asking them to alert the police, after which they opted to lock the door and leave the assailant locked inside until they arrived. of the agents.
The young man destroyed a large part of the facilities and broke furniture and numerous computers, according to the sources consulted by Efe.
The National Police, which is investigating this attack, has transferred the detained young man to the Pontevedra Provincial Police Station while specialized agents analyze the facilities of La Voz de Galicia in Pontevedra.
Andrés D.V.F. He has accumulated a long criminal record in recent years and, just a few days ago, he was convicted by a court in Ourense after assaulting a man in a bar in December 2020, after urging him to leave the premises for shouting slogans in favor of of E.T.A.
In addition to the attack on Rajoy, for which he was sentenced to two years of internment in a juvenile center in Ourense, ‘Capi’ also attacked the then provincial coordinator of Vox in Pontevedra in 2019, although he was not sentenced upon reaching a court order. settlement out of court
