A group of Cuban activists exiled in Europe staged a symbolic protest this Monday in front of the Cuban Consulate in Brussels: they returned a basket of eggs at the entrance of the building as a direct response to the vandalistic act committed a few days earlier by individuals associated with the consulate against the home of one of them.
The trigger was the launching of more than half a dozen eggs against the door of Ariadna Sierra Herrera, an activist residing in Brussels, during the protest days on July 3 and 4 in front of the European Parliament and the European External Action Service.
The activists Avana De La Torre and Leidy Peñalver, along with other colleagues, appeared before the consulate with a basket of eggs and stickers featuring the messages "Freedom for Cuba" and "I Accuse."
"We didn't want to leave Brussels without responding to them, but not in their way, not by throwing broken eggs to intimidate, dirty, or mark anyone's house, but by leaving a basket of eggs at the Cuban Consulate, with a clear message: the real blockade that crushes the Cuban people is called the Communist Party of Cuba," wrote Avana De La Torre when posting the video of the action on Facebook.
During the recording, De La Torre addresses a consulate official to explain the purpose of the visit: "I bring this because everyone gives what they have, and what I have for my people is respect and empathy."
The incident ended when the building activated an alarm and called the police, as heard at the end of the video.
Activists assert that the attack on Sierra Herrera's home was not an isolated incident, but part of a systematic pattern of harassment that recurs each time they announce a demonstration in Brussels.
According to Avana De La Torre, this pattern includes the publication of maps with the exact addresses of homes, photos of residents, public labeling with terms such as "rats" and "terrorists," dissemination of vehicle registrations, and breaches of personal data.
De la Torre pointed out that these harassment campaigns have been echoed by Cuba Información TV, Mariela Castro Espín —daughter of Raúl Castro— and the channel "El Guerrero Cubano."
"This is an act of vandalism, a mafia action, and yet another display of how the Cuban dictatorship operates both within and outside the island," the activist stated.
The protests in Brussels were framed around demands for the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, to implement the sanctions agreed upon in the resolution that the European Parliament approved regarding Cuba on June 18, 2026.
Leidy Peñalver, a resident of Italy who traveled specifically for the event, summarized the group's objective: "To urge European institutions to listen to Cuban civil society, support political prisoners, and refrain from providing any more political or financial support to a dictatorship that represses its people."
"Cuba exports repression through its consulates, and while the people survive amid hunger, garbage, mosquitoes, and blackouts, the regime's representatives are busy throwing eggs at the door of a home because a group of Cuban women decided to raise their voices in Brussels to tell the truth," concluded Avana De La Torre.
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