Faced with the astonishment of the European Parliament, Hermann TertschMEP for Vox, has assured that the former president of Chile Salvador Allende He was not assassinated: “No one assassinated Allende, Allende was preparing a dictatorship like the Cuban one,” he said.

However, the answers have not been long in coming: “The freedom of expression does not justify an assassination nor a 17-year dictatorship that killed tens and thousands of people”, as responded by PSOE MEP Javi López, who demanded “legal consequences” for Hermann Tertsch for these words.

As López stated on his official Twitter account, now called “should not allow statements that legitimize murder and torture.”