The National Police has arrested the son of the mayor of Santa Cruz de Bezana, Carmen Pérez (PP), along with another 20 -year -old boy, both identified as alleged perpetrators of the attack with explosive homemade artifacts that occurred at the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria on April 25, 2025 during the celebration of an act on historical and democratic memory in which there were more than 70 people. As has advanced the SER chain in Cantabria And Eldiario.es has confirmed with sources of the investigation, both detainees are expected to spend this Friday at judicial provision as presumed responsible for this attack.
The incident that is being investigated was produced when a hooded individual entered the headquarters of the PSOE of Cantabria, located on Vargas de Santander street, and launched in the interior explosive artifacts of homemade manufacturing, with flammable liquid within plastic bottles, while an act on democratic memory was held in which his secretary general participated, Pedro Casares, along with several members of the party and a high charge of the Government of the Government. Spain.
The bottles finally exploded at the main entrance of the socialist headquarters after one of the attendees of the act, in which there were more than 70 people, caught them and launched outside before they triggered, as it finally happened without causing personal damage. In these home artifacts you could read the following message: “Faced with revenge lies. PSOE = Satan.”
Regarding the act in which this attack with explosive artifacts occurred, the objective by the PSOE was to claim the change of name of 18 streets that still maintained the Francoist nomenclature in Santander, as well as that the Cantabria Prosecutor's Office had achieved the first declaration of injustice of a condemnation of a victim of Franco, to which he submitted “to a trial without guarantees already guarantees already.
Mayor's reaction
Once this information has been made public, the mayor of Santa Cruz de Bezana has sent a statement to the media in which she has confirmed that her son has been arrested by the National Police for her alleged involvement in this case: “My son is of legal age, he lives independently outside Cantabria and his alleged participation cannot be linked in any way with my political activity, with the party in which Milito, nor with my responsibility as mayor. He is the sole responsible, so I trust that there is neither political use or parallel judgments, ”said Carmen Pérez (PP).
What happened against the headquarters of the PSOE is a delectable fact that must be rejected without nuances and in no case has a place in a democratic society. Violence is never the way and in our democracy only coexistence, tolerance and respect should prevail
Carmen Pérez (pp)
— Mayor of Santa Cruz de Bezana
In addition, given the alleged involvement of his son in the events that occurred last April, the municipal governor of Santa Cruz de Bezana wanted to express his “most energetic condemnation of any violent act, come from wherever he comes and goes against whom he goes”. “What happened against the headquarters of the PSOE is a delectable fact that must be rejected without nuances and in no case has a place in a democratic society. Violence is never the way and in our democracy only coexistence, tolerance and respect must prevail,” he stressed in this sense.
“As a mother, my son's situation causes deep pain and immense concern, but I fully trust justice and, if his responsibility is demonstrated, he will have to respond and assume the consequences like any citizen,” concluded the leader of the PP in his statement.
This arrest comes in full national debate on political violence and when in the last hours, the general secretary of the Popular Party, Miguel Tellado – after the United States murder of the Trumpist activist Charlie Kirk – warned the left on the “political polarization” in Spain.
