Spain Notes, Nov 7: riot police charge alt-right
Judges get involved againt Puigdemont and the amnesty deal. The left and separatists say this proves their point versus the reactionary right.
1/ Thousands of people, led mostly by the alt-right, protested in several cities across Spain against Sánchez’s amnesty deal. Videos showed people outside Socialist Party headquarters in at least Sevilla, Jaén, Zaragoza, Murcia, Cádiz, Málaga, Valencia, Badajoz, Salamanca, León, Barcelona, Oviedo and Granada.
2/ Riot police charged to break up the protest in Madrid, using batons, rubber bullets, smoke and tear gas.
3/ Revuelta, the youth group linked to Vox that had called the protests, was outraged and vowed to protest again in the same manner tonight, Tuesday.
4/ Vox leader Abascal called Sánchez “an apprentice tyrant” after the clash.
5/ Vox said it was a “peaceful demonstration, with no incidents, until Marlaska and Sánchez gave the order to gas families, old people and kids”.
6/ As far as I could see, there were no reports of violence from the crowd in Madrid before the charge.
7/ Other alt-right influencer figures, Alvise Pérez and the head of the anti-squatters group Desokupa, announced they would now be going to the protest tonight.
8/ The PP said they hadn’t called the protest but blamed the government for the police charge.
9/ Sánchez defended socialists and their history claiming the alt-right protests outisde their buildings were “an attack on democracy”.
10/ Spain’s judicial council, the CGPJ, published an 8-page condemnation of the proposed amnesty deal, saying Sánchez was confusing the interest of Spain with the interest of the Prime Minister and that a fugitive from justice stood to benefit personally from the deal.
11/ Finance Minister María Jesús Montero tweeted: “the far-right wants to win by shouting in front of our headquarters, when they did not win at the ballot box”.
12/ The National High Court in Madrid announced it wants to talk to Puigdemont as part of a terrorism investigation into the Catalan separatist street protest group Tsunami Democratic.
13/ “Tejero wears a robe”, tweeted Esquerra MP Gabriel Rufián, in reference to the 1981 coup in Spain.
14/ The National High Court decision proves we were right to include Tsunami Democratic activies in the amnesty deal, said Esquerra in a party statement.
15/ The reactionary right is, well, reacting against the amnesty deal from the media and the judiciary because Feijóo couldn’t win a majority in parliament, wrote Pablo Iglesias.
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