Interior mounts a police device to prevent the tractor unit called for Saturday from entering Madrid
The Ministry of the Interior has activated a police device to control the main accesses to Madrid and prevent the protest with tractors by farmers and ranchers called for this Saturday in Madrid, as confirmed by police sources. The 6F platform – an organization outside the agricultural centers that mobilizes through social networks and WhatsApp groups – has announced that its intention is to reach the federal headquarters of the PSOE in the capital, located on the street de Ferraz, and which in November and December was already the scene of other demonstrations, then against the amnesty law.
The deployment arranged by the Interior, in which agents from the National Police, the Civil Guard, Municipal Police and members of the Samur, Firefighters and the General Directorate of Traffic will participate, aims precisely for the protesters’ tractors to collapse the city.
The capacity of the 6-F platform for this Saturday in Madrid is unknown, although police sources point out that it is much smaller than suggested by the noise that its messages are making on social networks. In fact, from this platform a call had been made for this Friday, at 10 in the morning, rallies to take place before the 17 government delegations. In Madrid, only a small number of people have attended and no tractors. “There were more journalists than protesters,” sources from the delegation itself highlight. Despite this, the Interior has decided to maintain the reinforcement plans in the capital.
This Friday, the fifth day of protests, there had been no new arrests until three in the afternoon, as reported by Interior. In the previous four days, 20 people have been arrested in addition to thousands of protesters identified to be proposed for sanction in application of the Citizen Security law, known as the gag law. Fines for traffic violations also number in the thousands.