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From Indalecio Prieto's Gun to Vázquez's Pepper Spray: when Weapons Arrive in Congress

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A hundred retirees from Albacete presented themselves to Congress in early 1999 to make a visit to the Lower House, as thousands of people do every year. However, the metal detector turned that routine activity into an anecdote that, months later, the socialist congressman Joaquín Iñiguez recalled in a commission: of that hundred Albacetean countrymen, 60 had a knife on them. "These retired citizens, who came to see Congress, were certainly not …
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A hundred retirees from Albacete presented themselves to Congress in early 1999 to make a visit to the Lower House, as thousands of people do every year. However, the metal detector turned that routine activity into an anecdote that, months later, the socialist congressman Joaquín Iñiguez recalled in a commission: of that hundred Albacetean countrymen, 60 had a knife on them. "These retired citizens, who came to see Congress, were certainly not …

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laprovincia.es broke the news on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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