The National Police are preparing a deployment of more than 200 riot police this Saturday in the center of Madrid after far-right and far-left organizations called for demonstrations to protest the leadership of DANA, a demonstration directed against the government of Pedro Sanchez and the other against Carlos Mazon.
As sources from the Ministry of the Interior describe to EL ESPAÑOL, the first demonstration authorized by the Government Delegation in Madrid will take place in 8:00 p.m. this Saturday. Organized by the far-right collective Núcleo Nacional, it will start in the Plaza de España and end on Ferraz Street under the slogan “Only the people save the people”.
This group comes from “National November”, which last year promoted demonstrations around the PSOE headquarters in Madrid. Last November, Rue Ferraz became the epicenter of mass rallies against Amnesty lawwhich was one of the conditions of Sánchez’s inauguration, and which took place on these dates.
In response to this call, the far-left groups announced theirs two hours earlier and not far from each other. The radicals of Izquierda Castellana and the Antirepressive Movement of Madrid will meet at 6:00 p.m. in front of the Community of Madrid building, at Puerta del Sol, under the slogans “Solidarity with Valencia” and “Mazón resignation”.
This is what led the Interior to activate up to 4 groups of Police Intervention Units (UIP) (with 50 riot police in each) and to alert other basic units in the control of mass and demonstrations, protecting the center of the city.
This device was born from the fear of riots and altercations between the two factions, which is why the National Police will try to prevent the two groups from meeting anywhere in the city.
A year of Ferraz
Before what is probably the worst environmental tragedy in Spanish history occurred, the Interior Ministry was already preparing a new and powerful police system facing possible new disturbances in rue Ferraz, in view of the anniversary of the serious altercations last fall in front of the PSOE headquarters.
The calls have been circulating for weeks on social networks like Telegram. The number of officers in the Police Intervention Units (PIU) was established this week based on information available to those responsible for the operation.
The agents will try to avoid new scenes of riots, vandalism and violence in the streets of Madrid, which will occur at the beginning of November, in less than 15 days.
As last year, after the organization of these demonstrations in front of the PSOE headquarters, the citizen security specialists of the National Police locate far-right groups and neo-Nazi ideology in the dissemination and organization of the protest.
84 people arrested in Ferraz
State security forces and bodies arrested a total of 84 people per incident produced in the concentrations on rue Ferraz last fall, in November and December. Additionally, they performed 367 sanctions in application of the law on citizen security, of which the PSOE intends to delete certain articles.
The protests in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street were a series of demonstrations that began at the end of October last year, when the PSOE and its pro-independence partners (ERC and Junts) were negotiating the approval of the amnesty law for erase all crimes committed by pro-independence politicians during the years of greatest intensity of the war. process sovereignist.
For more than a month, every evening, at eight o’clock in the afternoon, Thousands of people gathered in front of the socialist headquarters to protest against the creation of this law, a procedure so that the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez results in a majority. In exchange, the government promised a general pardon to a multitude of defendants from the Catalan nationalist movement.
Some nights, given the belligerence and violence experienced in the center of Madrid, the National Police had to protect the central street of the capital with hundreds of soldiers.
The dynamic was similar day after day. Among thousands of peaceful demonstrators, around nine thirty in the evening, a group of around a hundred hooded young people took the front lines of the police cordon and began throwing all kinds of objects at the police. They also tried to break the fence which prevented their passage.
These groups were made up hundreds of radicals, some of them with a neo-Nazi aesthetic. Many nights, the violent people threw glass bottles, paving stones, iron bars, beer cans and even eggs at the officers. And the police finally reacted, after hours of holding the post, with police charges, tear gas and even rubber bullets against those who tried to break the cordon and access the socialist headquarters.
Chaos invaded those days certain early mornings in the Argüelles district and in the main arteries of Madrid, such as Gran Vía or Princesa Street, where fierce battles took place between demonstrators and riot police. The serious altercations would end on some nights with dozens of police officers injured, as well as numerous demonstrators.
