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A young man reported being punched in the face during the Vitoria riots

The young Aritz Ibarra reports on Radio Vitoria that a foam ball launched by the Ertzaintza in the context of the Falange Española meeting on Sunday has broken his jaw and has already filed a complaint in the courts. For EH Bildu, what happened is very serious and the Ertzaintza  has opened an internal investigation. 

VITORIA, 12/10/2025.- Destrozos tras los disturbios registrados cuando varias personas han tratado de impedir la celebración de un acto de Falange Española con el lanzamiento de todo tipo de objetos, este domingo. Siete personas han sido detenidas. EFE/Adrian Ruiz Hierro
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A young Vitorian who took part in the demonstration on Sunday at a Spanish Falange event in Vitoria-Gasteiz has reported that a foam ball fired by the Ertzaintza hit him in the face, breaking his jaw. The Ertzaintza, for its part, has reported the opening of an internal investigation .

Infront of the microphones of Radio Vitoria young Aritz Ibarrareported on Sunday at noon that while the Ertzaintza was sponsoring an event of Falange Española,  threw a ball directly into his face from adistance of five meters

"As I was on the run, I was shot straight five yards away, and at that moment I felt my mouth broken and full of blood," he said. Police officers, when they saw the sound, "were scared," he said. So the next day he was operated on in the hospital and, as he said in the young man, "luckily everything went well."

Yesterday he filed a lawsuit in court and released the video of the impact on the X social network once he filed the complaint. "Yesterday the lawyer recommended that we file the complaint with the courts before making it public, and then we made the case public," he said. 

EH Bildu has described what happened as' very serious'.

Arkaitz Rodriguez , Secretary of Political Action and Member of Parliament of EH Bildu, made statements to the media minutes before the start of the plenary session of the Basque Parliament, in which he described the attitude of the Ertzaintza as' very serious'. 'This young man's jaw breaking seems to us to be a very serious incident', he said.

Rodriguez has pointed out that "there are videos and photographs" and that "everything suggests that this is a police action that could be illegal, once again".

In this regard, it has called on the institutions to "take responsibility" and demanded that they be "self-critical" and take "concrete measures to ensure that this does not happen again." 

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Zupiria insists "there are no charges"

The Security Adviser, Bingen Zupiria, in statements to the media in the Parliament of Vitoria, has again stressed the same thing as last Monday, that  knew there could be a complaint about events like this. 

However, he has pointed out that at present neither the Ertzaintza has received any complaints about these facts nor the courts.

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The Ertzaintza has opened an internal investigation.

In a statement, the Department of Safety and Security has reported the opening of an internal investigation into these incidents. "The Ertzaintza has been informed of this through the media and not officially, as there are no reports of it at this time," the note states.

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Zupiria: "It's been four days since this happened and the Ertzaintza has not received any complaints and, as far as we know, not even in the courts."

The Councillor refers to the information published this Thursday about the injuries allegedly caused by a foam shell fired by the Ertzaintza last Sunday against a person who participated in the protests against the Falange rally in Vitoria. Zupiria recalls that last Monday he announced that "the rumor" had reached him that a complaint could be filed for such events. However, he points out that at present the Ertzaintza has not received any complaints about these events.

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