After the incidents recorded last night in Barcelona, those responsible for the Mossos Esquadra recognize that they will have to review their devices in the event of future protests against the measures that the government and the Generalitat have decreed to stop the growth of coronavirus infections.
The Catalan police detained at least 14 people – two of them minors – during the altercations that took place after a rally in Plaça Sant Jaume against the new restrictions. The riots ended with 30 minor injuries (23 police officers and seven protesters), several damage to street furniture and police vehicles, and the looting of at least two commercial establishments.
In an interview on 324 (the 24-hour channel of TV3), the Mossos commissioner AlÃcia Moriana He explained that in the protests there were “radical groups, some of which linked to the extreme right”, as well as people who are part of economic sectors affected by the new measures against Covid. “We had suspicions that there could be a more radical group of people, but in no case had we foreseen the violence they exerted,” he acknowledged.
The police officer also said that the agents carried out searches of the people who attended the concentration that allowed them “to detect people who were carrying flares, firecrackers, glass bottles and paint.”
Around a thousand people had gathered peacefully at the beginning of the afternoon in Plaça Sant Jaume, but later about a hundred protesters started the altercations, in which several dozen containers were burned and barricades were formed in the center of the city.
The general director of the Mossos, Pere Ferrer, which attributes the altercations to the convergence of “very violent groups with a strong presence of the extreme right”, has recognized today in an interview in Rac1 that they will have to review the police mechanisms before the call of new protests.
On the other hand, the Barcelona’s town hall has ordered to clean this morning the graffiti made by a group of protesters with slogans and neo-Nazi symbols. The Councilor for Citizen Rights and Participation, Marc Serra, has advanced that the Consistory will report the facts to the Prosecutor for Hate Crimes.
This is the trace of the presence of neo-Nazi groups in the dahir protests. We have ordered it cleaned up immediately and we will report it to the Prosecutor’s Office.
All support to the Jewish communities of our city. Barcelona is a city of peace and proudly diverse. pic.twitter.com/t3srIWZZpE
Marc Serra Solà (@MarcSerraSole) October 31, 2020
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