Right -wing extremism: nine arrests after “hunt for migrants” in Spain

Nine people have been arrested in the riots against migrants in southeastern Spain, which had been ongoing for three nights. This was announced by the government in Madrid. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska blamed the right-wing populist party VOX for the riots in Torre Pacheco near the Mediterranean coast in the Murcia region. “These events are a result of the right -wing extremist discourse,” he said.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reacted for the first time on the news platform X: “Racism is incompatible with democracy,” he wrote. He called on the “determined action”. Meanwhile, a fourth riot night in a row did not rule out media in Murcia.

Vox boss Santiago Abascal meanwhile accused the left government of “behind the rapes of Spanish women, the knife attacks on Spaniards and violence on the streets”. He called for “mass deportations of illegals” and the designation of legal migrants who commit crimes.

Armed with baseball bats and Molotov cocktails

Despite the increased police presence, numerous younger men in Torre Pacheco had previously gathered on Monday to make “hunt for migrants” – according to statements by politicians and the media. Some were armed with baseball bats. They threw the officers with bottles, stones and molotov cocktails. They also set daring containers on fire, as could be seen on various television channels.

Numerous people were injured at the clashes started on Friday evening. In the night of Monday, the police were able to largely prevent attacks on the migrants from the Maghreb. An estimate of the number of participants was not announced for the time being. At least several dozen could be seen on TV pictures and photos.

Ultrar rights are said to have called for “hunt for migrants” online

Mayor Pedro Ángel Roca told journalists that many of the protesters had traveled from outside. The delegate of the Spanish central government in the Murcia region, Mariola Guevara, presumably ultra -rights had called for a “hunt for migrants” in Torre Pacheco on social media.

The trigger was triggered by an attack on a 68-year-old who was said to have been committed by people with a migration background on Wednesday. Two of the alleged perpetrators were among those arrested, said Guevara.

Mayor Pedro Ángel Roca said in the TV broadcaster RTVE that around 30 percent of the 40,000 inhabitants in his municipality are migrants who mainly work in agriculture. “Many of these people have been living here for over 20 years, their children are born in here.” “Of course” there is also crime in Torre Pacheco. In the direction of the right -wing extremist groups, however, Roca emphasized: “We ask no one to get here to help us.”