Man arrested for making death threats against Valencia’s president Carlos Mazon

THE Policia Nacional have arrested a person for posting demise threats on social media in opposition to Valencian president Carlos Mazon.

The 30-year-old was detained in Valencia final Thursday.

The unnamed man, who’s accused of hate crimes and threats, used Instagram to threaten Mazon over the last three months.

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His postings began after the October 29 floods which has seen the president broadly criticised for his gradual response.

Hostile messages included: “We’re going to take his life.”

One other risk recommended that Mazon must be shot between his eyebrows and that anyone standing by him would ‘pay as properly’.

Mazon complained to the police after receiving the messages on his official presidential Instagram account.

The Policia Nacional isn’t ruling out additional arrests over different malicious social media postings.

The area’s Minister of Agriculture, Miguel Barrachina, mentioned: “Those that make the most of tragedies like ours to intoxicate them with hatred and threats deserve all our condemnation.”

Final Thursday, Mazon needed to reduce quick his go to to the Magdalena fiestas in Castellon as a consequence of safety considerations after a number of protests had been made in opposition to him.

The Valencian Partido Widespread accused opposition events of ‘crossing the road’ with their marketing campaign in opposition to the regional chief.

It additionally demanded that the Authorities delegate within the Valencian Group, Pilar Bernabe, ‘comply, cease these assaults and assure the security’ of the president.

Bernabe final week in flip promised: “Certainly, I’ll work as a authorities delegate to take care of safety in all of the environments the place President Mazon is.”