Fresno Mayor Torote, Ana Isabel Arias (PP), reported to the Civil Guard insults, harassment and throwing of stones and glass at her house during the patron saint’s festivities. The councilor took this measure because she claims to fear for her safety and that of her family, and calls for “an end to this violence and harassment.”
The events took place in the early morning of August 16, in the middle of the city’s patron saint festival. Fresno de Torote is a private municipality, owned by individuals, which in its central core has no population although its fields and farms are dedicated to agriculture. Very close by, there is another core, Serracines, a neighborhood of Fresno where its population settled three decades ago and where the city hall is also located. This is where the reported events took place.
The mayor claims that around 4:30 in the morning, several people shouted insults at the doors of her house, threw objects at her, and even broke one of the house’s glass security doors. They also called the phone so insistently that it no longer worked. Following the complaint, members of the Civil Guard went to the scene on two occasions.
The mayor also handed over the recordings from the home security system to the Civil Guard. He claims to have no suspicions about the perpetrators of these events, although it appears that they were young people. He admits to being afraid because the attackers were at the doors of his home, surrounding him in the middle of the night, shouting and throwing objects.
Ana Isabel Arias was re-elected mayor of Fresno del Torote in the last municipal elections of May 2023. She obtained the absolute majority of the councilors, with which she formed a government. The city has about 2,000 inhabitants and is located about 15 kilometers from Alcalá de Henares.
