The organizers of the demonstration have denounced “the brutal accusation that has caused many people to suffer injuries of varying degrees, some of whom have lost consciousness.”
Four people have been arrested charged with crimes of public disorder and assault on law enforcement officers in connection with the altercations recorded in Vitoria-Gasteiz during the demonstration held in memory of the victims of March 3, 1976.
Two people were arrested during the incidents during the march and two others later when they went to protest against the arrests at the Basque police station in the Lakua district.
As reported by the Ertzaintza, seven officers were injured. In addition, dozens of protesters have been injured.
The organizers of the demonstration, the Victims Association and the unions ELA, LAB, ESK and Steilas, have published a message. Edition in which they denounce “absolutely brutal accusations, not only with batons and dozens of foam balls, but even attacking the demonstrators with the police vans themselves. As a result of this attack, one of the police vans passed a young man.” was injured and had to be treated by ambulance. Along with this young man, a large number of people suffered injuries of varying degrees, some of whom lost consciousness.”
Thousands of people took part in the demonstration that started at 12:30 from the Zaramaga district where the events of March 3 took place, behind a banner with the slogan ‘Atzo eta gaur borrokan, Towards a just future’.
Half an hour after the start of the march, altercations broke out when a group of people participating in the demonstration on Paz Street began to shout insults and throw objects at police forces, who were part of the security apparatus established on the occasion. , as reported by the security department of the Basque government
The tension has increased and so it is police charges by Ertzaintza riot police, while some demonstrators threw stones, bottles and eggs at police.
When the tension finally passed, the demonstration ended as planned in the Plaza de los Fueros, amid shouts of “police, murderers.”
Organizers have denounced that “dozens of foam balls have been thrown into the streets of La Paz and Postas just weeks after a young man in Tolosa was seriously injured by a police charge with this material. Not only that, but the Ertzaintza ” tried to access cargo from Postas Street to the Plaza de los Fueros where the closing event was held, which was full of people, which was avoided by the organization of the organizing unions.
They remembered that thousands of people of all ages took part in the demonstration and after showing their “absolute rejection” of the accusation, they demanded it responsibilities are purified in the Ertzaintza and the prisoners are released.
“We also demand that those responsible for the Basque government and the Ertzaintza let us commemorate and claim March 3 without suffering from their attacks. And of course we would like to express our solidarity with all the injured,” they concluded.
The detainees were released late last night.
Source: EITB
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