Agents of the Police Intervention Units (UIP) charged a group of demonstrators near the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz, who were participating in the demonstration. protests against government policy as a year has passed since demonstrations in the same place against the amnesty law. The accusations took place around 10:30 p.m. in the night, after a group of demonstrators attempted to demolish the fences which cut off access to the socialist headquarters. Some demonstrators also burned containers and threw bottles at the police.
Police fired rubber bullets and dispersed protesters toward Marqués de Urquijo and Pintor Rosales streets. The Government Delegation in Madrid estimated 2,000 participants in this event. The PSOE condemned the “black march” which crossed the center of Madrid this afternoon to Ferraz Street as a sign of protest against government policy, regretting the “fascist cries” and the “Nazi salutes” of these “hooded neo-Francoists”.
More than 200 people marched from the Plaza de España to the federal headquarters of the PSOE, rue Ferraz, a year after the demonstrations organized in the same place against the amnesty law. From the party’s side, it was emphasized that “the PSOE will always confront with all the force of democracy the fascist advance that is spreading throughout the world, and especially in our country.” “No one will find the PSOE lukewarm in its condemnation of these movements,” added the sources who asked the PP and its leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to adopt a similar position. “They are not attacking the PSOE, they are attacking our democracy,” they say from Ferraz.
Because “silence, condescension or looking away only fuel the monster of the extreme right”, then “extending a democratic perimeter around the ultras is a duty of all the democratic parties in our country”. “No one can present themselves to citizens as a democrat as long as they do not condemn these events that lead us to Spain’s dark past,” he stressed.
It should be remembered that in Valencia, this same Saturday, the Government Delegation did not consider it appropriate to establish a similar cordon around the Palau de la Generalitat de Valencia, allowing demonstrators to reach the doors of the regional Government headquarters.
