This happened during an event at the Fundació Universitària Martí l’Humà, in the municipality of La Garriga.
a group of demonstrators threw red paint on journalist Pilar Rahola during a conference at the Fundació Universitària Martí l’Humà, in the municipality of La Garriga. The officials likely carried out the attack in protest against the State of Israel, according to local media.
The journalist, who has always been close to Israel, proposed the lecture “On estem, cap on anem” (“Where we are, not where we are going”) in front of a hundred people when a group of activists took the stage and they bathed it in red paint, as the writer also explained to ElNacional.cat.
After the attack, the journalist cleaned herself, changed her clothes and continued her presentation. Outside the theater, a group of around twenty people demonstrated against the State of Israel.
#BreakingMinute | They painted Pilar Rahola with vermilion for denouncing complicity in the genocide in Palestine.
In a report to La Garriga (Vallés Oriental), after the action, they declared that “it is full of blood”. pic.twitter.com/IFSAmt1ZI2
– HORITZÓ (@HoritzoS) October 8, 2024
“Let’s fight the accomplices of the genocide”“Let’s destroy the Zionist State of Israel” and “Zionism is fascism” were some of the slogans protesters carried on their banners.
After the painting was shown, activists criticized the journalist He is “stained with blood”according to local media.
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