US EditionSpain Tightens Scrutiny of Far-Right Groups After Clashes
TORRE PACHECO, MURCIA, SPAIN, JUL 14 – Far-right groups exploited an attack on a pensioner to incite violence in Torre Pacheco, where 14 arrests followed clashes amid a community with 30% immigrant residents, officials said.
- On July 9, 2025 in Torre Pacheco, anti-migrant violence erupted after a pensioner was beaten, with the victim identified as Domingo Tomás Domínguez.
- After the social media video of the assault spread online, and VOX tweet on July 11, 2025, claimed nationalist groups organized 'hunts,' tensions increased in Torre Pacheco.
- Security forces mobilised, with over 130 officers from local police in Murcia and Guardia Civil, and 14 people were arrested in connection with the riots.
- Political fallout included the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party filing a hate crime complaint against José Ángel Antelo, and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska blamed far-right rhetoric, highlighting political tensions.
- In the town, North African residents report fear of street attacks, Abdelali told The Times.
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The Straits TimesSpain tightens scrutiny of far-right groups after clashes
MADRID: Spain said on Thursday (Jul 17) it would step up investigations into suspected crimes by members of far-right and racist groups after four nights of clashes with African migrants in some of the nation's worst such unrest of recent times. Authorities have detained 11 people and filed more than 60 co
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nin.rsRiots erupted after three Moroccan men attacked a pensioner in a small town in southern Spain.
In Spain, a total of ten people have been arrested since Friday. Three North Africans are suspected of having attacked a pensioner. This attack had triggered anti-foreign riots, in which seven more people were arrested. "At the present time there are ten detainees," said the representative of the central government in the Murcia region, Mariola Guevara, on Monday at X. The riots in Torre Pacheco in southern Spain were triggered by the attack on …
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