US EditionTensions Escalate in Torre Pacheco Amid Anti-Immigration Clashes
TORRE PACHECO, MURCIA, JUL 14 – Eight people were arrested after violent clashes between far-right groups and migrants following an assault on an elderly man, with police deploying over 75 officers to restore order.
- On Monday, Spanish authorities announced the arrest of eight individuals following several consecutive evenings of violent confrontations involving far-right factions and North African migrants in Torre Pacheco, Murcia.
- The unrest followed an assault last week on Domingo Tomas, an elderly man attacked while walking in a cemetery, which triggered retaliatory raids and attacks.
- Violent clashes involved youths hurling glass bottles at police, with far-right activists inciting anti-migrant slogans and some migrants reporting fear for their safety.
- Mayor Pedro Angel Roca called on migrants to remain indoors and avoid engaging with the rioters, emphasizing that such confrontations are unproductive and increase fear, while Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska attributed the unrest to far-right inflammatory rhetoric.
- The events highlight deep social tensions in Torre Pacheco, where migrants form nearly one-third of the 40,000 population and work mainly in agriculture, emphasizing a need for dialogue and peaceful coexistence.
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Arrested in Rentería (Guipúzcoa) the third involved in the assault on a man in the town of Torre Pacheco, Murcia.
The alleged attack by immigrants to an old town made this town the palace of camp battles between Magrebins, the police and groups of extreme-right soldiers who came out. Eight have already been arrested.
Extreme right-wing groups are caught throughout the weekend by people of North African origin, after the aggression of a resident of this southern municipality of Spain last week.
Eight people have been arrested following violent clashes between right-wing extremists and migrants in south-eastern Spain.
After a brutal beating on a pensioner, the situation in the south-eastern Spanish town of Torre Pacheco escalated. In the small town of Murcia, about ten kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea, riots took place on several nights.
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