US EditionLeft and Right Clash in Spain over Vuelta's Pro-Palestine Protests
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Thomas Pupp, director of the Tour of Austria, understands the cause and the protests, but: "So the demonstrators have not done a good service to their cause"
Left and right clash in Spain over Vuelta's pro-Palestine protests
Spain's political class are clashing over chaotic pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid that brought the Vuelta to a premature end on Sunday, with the opposition accusing the leftist government of permitting an "international embarrassment".
While the clock was ticking at 6.30 p.m., the platoon was waiting for news in the Campo de Moro, before arriving at the circuit running along the central streets of Madrid. A route that was being taken by the pro-Palestinian protesters. A few minutes later, the most feared news by the organization became official: the stage came to an abrupt end and, with it, the Vuelta a España. The thousands of people who had set themselves the goal of boycott…
Attacks on riders, nails scattered on the road, protests. In the history of cycling's Grand Tours, there have often been disruptions to the race, but the demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists during this year's Vuelta are out of the "normal". It's not the manner, but the extent to which they occurred.
El Periódico
'It's a mess, they're hesitating (...), let's hope the government stops squirming at Spanish society, stop fooling us'
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