The authorities launched, Sunday, July 13, a call for calm in the city of Torre-Pacheco, near Murcia (south-eastern Spain); For the second night in a row, riots against immigrants took place, following the assault of a retiree by three young people still wanted by the police.
“Torre-Pacheco must regain normality (…). I understand frustration, but nothing justifies violence ”wrote in a message on the social network X the president of the Murcia region, the curator Fernando Lopez Miras, ensuring that the assault suffered by this retiree would not remain “Not unpunished”.
“I call calm residents, tranquility”insisted on public television RTVE the mayor of the city, Pedro Angel Roca Tornel, also a member of the People’s Party (Curator), calling not to confuse the “Delinquents” with the entire immigrant population, who came “To work”.
These calls arise while Torre-Pacheco, a city of 36,000 inhabitants located on the Mediterranean coast, experienced a second night of riots on Saturday to Sunday, with clashes that made several injured, according to the prefecture.
Slogans against immigrants
According to the daily Murcia’s opinionseveral groups of people have traveled the streets of the town with sticks in search of people of foreign origin, despite the deployment of an important police device. At least one person was arrested, according to the prefecture.
These clashes occurred following the violent assault in the street on Wednesday at dawn, a 68 -year -old resident. This retiree, named Domingo, told Spanish media, with a swollen face, having been attacked by three young people of North African origin without apparent reason.
This assault, filmed and whose video was posted on social networks, prompted the town hall to organize a rally on Friday afternoon. This demonstration, which wanted to be peaceful, degenerated due to the presence of far-right groups which have disseminated anti-immigrant slogans, according to the authorities. One of them, called “Deport Them Now” (“Move them now”), called on Telegram to a ” hunting “ to people of North African origin. “If the other Maghrebians in the town do not collaborate in the identification of the culprits, they will automatically become guilty and will have to pay”he wrote.
In a message on the Bluesky social network, the Minister of Youth, Sira Rego, member of the Sumar Party (radical left), condemned “Firmly the racist persecution against migrants in Torre-Pacheco”questioning the role of “Ultra -right” in these riots.