A violent group stormed the Cuban restaurant ApuLuLu, situated within the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, shouting “fascists out” on Saturday, April 8. This has been denounced by its proprietor, Miguel Caballero, in statements to Europa Press.
The assailants brought on harm to the premises, situated contained in the San Fernando Market, and attacked the workers as properly. One of them, an activist in opposition to the dictatorship in Cuba, recounted what occurred on his social networks.
Caballero has specified that they started to interrupt glass, bottles and crockery, one thing that brought on cuts to a waiter, who needed to be handled in a hospital. The supervisor himself additionally obtained blows when making an attempt to carry the group till the police arrived.
The individual accountable for the restaurant has accused “two or three positions” of the identical gastronomic area of directing the stress in opposition to his premises. And it’s that since its opening a yr in the past they’ve been struggling assaults.
All for being in opposition to the Cuban regime, though Caballero has admitted that the “escalation” of violence has reached its most stage with this newest assault, round 10 pm on Holy Saturday evening.
He has admitted the “worry” with which he and his employees come to work. However, he’s not going to depart the market “for no less than ten years”, when the native concession expires.
Support from Villacís: “They are liberticides”
The following day, this Sunday, the ApuLuLu reopened, as introduced on its Instagram profile: “Today, stronger than ever, we’ve got returned to work with our heads held excessive and with extra need to proceed bringing the flavors of our land and with freedom as a flag…”
It was accompanied by a message from the proprietor: “We wish to thank everybody who has been involved about our employees, who had been attacked yesterday by unscrupulous individuals.” Later, he additionally thanked the go to of the deputy mayor Begoña Villacís.
After what occurred, in a video with Caballero, she seems saying a couple of phrases of help for the native: “We, these of us who’re with freedom, needed to be there on a day like as we speak, to say that this belongs to all Madrid residents.”
Apululu Bar is a Cuban nook the place freedom is breathed within the coronary heart of Lavapiés.
There are those that cannot stand it, nor their wrestle, nor their need for Freedom.
Today I wished to accompany @ lachy77 and his colleagues after being attacked yesterday by excessive left liberticides.
Homeland and life. pic.twitter.com/KSLwNpVYoT
— Begoña Villacís (@begonavillacis) April 9, 2023
“Whoever thinks that that is property and that they’ll kidnap freedom, turning into violent, they’re liberticides,” added the ‘orange’. On her Twitter profile, she additionally printed a photograph with the workers after the go to by which she even dared to arrange a mojito.
He accused the “excessive left” of main the assault and ended with a “homeland and life.” “The boys are having a tough time, they depart this market threatened and afraid each day, on their manner residence, not understanding if they will return,” the proprietor of ApuLuLu concluded within the video.
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