Protests and Riots in Madrid: 10 Arrested in Largest Demonstration Against PSOE’s Catalan Amnesty Law Agreement

2023-11-10 04:42:27

At least ten people were detained this Thursday in Madrid for new incidents that were registered within the framework of protests in front of the headquarters of the socialist party (PSOE) in the capital of Spain once morest the amnesty law of the Catalan independence process.

This Thursday’s protest, a raid that has been repeated since last Friday, was the largest with nearly eight thousand peoplereported the ANSA agency.

Each of them was promoted by the extreme right party Vox with the objective of expressing their opposition to the amnesty law and the agreement that the PSOE reached with the Catalan independence party Junts per Catalunya to guarantee the investiture of the premier, Pedro Sánchez.

A group of protesters burned street furniture and threw firecrackers, flares and bottles of beer to the police officers, who immediately they responded.

Some violent protesters gave the fascist salute and sang “Face to the sun”, the anthem of the Falangefascist party.

According to international agencies, the protesters, with covered faceshurled insults at the king such as “Felipe, a freemason, defends the nation” and others dedicated to Sánchez himself: “He is not a president, he is a criminal“.

Protests and riots in Madrid due to the agreement between Sánchez with Catalan separatists. AFP Photo

“This police is with the amnesty,” was another of the chants that also targeted the security forces.

The agreement that sparked the protests

This Thursday, when he has just over two weeks left to be elected president once more and avoid a repeat election, Pedro Sánchez agreed to a pact with the Catalan independence movement in which he gives in to all their requests, in exchange for them supporting his re-election.

At least ten arrested in what was so far the largest demonstration due to the PSOE’s rapprochement with the separatists. AFP photo.

A amnesty lawthe possibility of negotiating a self-determination referendum and an international mediator for Catalan issues are the main points of the four-page document that the PSOE agreed in Brussels with Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president who fled Spain in 2017 following unilaterally declaring the independence of Catalonia.

Puigdemontconsidered a fugitive from Spanish justicebecame the demiurge of Sánchez’s investiture who, with the purpose of gathering the necessary support for Parliament to name him president of the government once once more, made questioned and controversial concessions to the Catalan independentists.

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