US EditionMigrants Terrorize Spanish Town Over Imam's Eviction
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The mayor of Salt (Girona), Jordi Viñas, the delegate of Interior in Girona, Eduard Adrobau, and the imam of the sub-Saharan community, Kalikou Diawara, have called for calm this Wednesday after last night more than a hundred hooded people threw objects at the police and provoked riots in the streets. They have all wanted to dissociate the riots from the eviction suffered by the family of the imam, when on Monday he tried to return to the flat f…
Migrants Terrorize Spanish Town Over Imam's Eviction
The historic Catalan town of Salt has suffered two consecutive nights of riots following the arrest of a sub-Saharan imam. He had been evicted from a house he had illegally occupied for five years without paying rent. In response, immigrant groups and radical left-wing activists have vandalised property, attacked the police, set fire to dumpsters, and damaged urban infrastructure. The first episode of violence occurred when around 200 people gat…
The mayor of ERC has provided temporary housing to the clergyman and his family despite recognizing that they do not meet the requirements. There are six detainees for the riots, three of them minors and several with antecedents. More information: This is how Salt's neighbors lived on the second night of riots: "It looks like we're at war"
The Okupa imam of Salt, who had not paid the mortgage of his home for years, and his family did not meet the conditions of vulnerability to stop the eviction that has caused two consecutive nights of riots. This has been confirmed by the mayor of the town, Jordi Viñas (ERC), after two nights of altercations that have included an attempt to assault the police station of the Mossos d’Esquadra. The mayor has explained that the eviction of the imam …
The mayor of the municipality, from ERC, has pointed out that the man no longer exercised as a magnet, although he still had the support of his religious community.
Salt City Council dissociates the altercations produced last night that have been settled, for the time being, with the arrest of six people for public disorder and attack on the authority, three of them minors, with the eviction and subsequent eviction of the imam and his family from the floor of which they stopped paying the mortgage more than four years ago. Continue reading...
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