Torre Pacheco, a city of 36,000 inhabitants, experienced a second consecutive night of riots, following the assault in the street of a retiree by people described as “of North African origin”.
The Spanish authorities launched a call for calm on Sunday in the city of Torre Pacheco, near Murcia (Southeast), where a second consecutive night of anti-immigrant riots took place after the assault of a retired by three young people currently 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 conservative president of the Murcia region, Fernando Lopez Miras, ensuring that the aggression 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 Ternel, also a member of the People’s Party (PP, Curator), by 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 side, experienced a second consecutive night in the night from Saturday to Sunday, with clashes that made several injured, according to the prefecture. 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.
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A retiree attacked for no apparent reason
These clashes occurred after 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” (“take them now”) called on Telegram to a “hunting” for people of North African origin. “”If the other Maghrebis 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 far left party Sumar, “firmly condemned racist persecution against migrants at Torre Pacheco”, calling the role of “The ultra -rightIn these riots.
