Who's Really Behind the Looting and Violence in Barcelona?
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Who's really behind the looting and violence in Barcelona?
Spanish police are conducting a probe into what sparked the sudden wave of looting and rioting in Barcelona over the weekend, with experts pointing to social media and even foreign actors as being behind the unrest.
The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) will ask the courts to trace the origin of the call to action and shut down the platform's messaging channels. Related: Pimec Comerç demands aid after the looting in downtown Barcelona: "Shopkeepers cannot pay the price for the vandalism."
The Minister of the Interior considers that the groups worked in a perfectly coordinated manner
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The Mossos d'Esquadra will request urgent judicial authorization to access the messaging platforms and trace the origin of the call that led to serious riots and looting last Saturday in the center of Barcelona. This has been announced in an interview in Catalunya by the Consellera de Interior, Núria Parlon, in the framework of the open investigation to clarify who organized and disseminated the call, which spread through social networks and app…
The councillor of Interior and Public Security, Núria Parlon, has assured this Monday that there was a will of destabilization and chaos of the organizers of the riots of Saturday in Barcelona and that they will ask the platforms for which the demonstration was called information of the accounts that promoted the riots.Continue reading...
"We are investigating what has happened and who is behind the networking calls," the minister said.
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