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Pacheco Tower, a Powder Keg: the Civil Guard Reinforces Itself to Avoid a "Disgrace" After New Riots Against Immigrants

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Located in the heart of the region of Campo de Cartagena and just half an hour drive from Murcia city is Torre Pacheco, a quiet agricultural town that this week has become a powder keg due to tensions with the immigrant population, specifically the Maghrebi, with two nights followed by riots that have forced to reinforce the police presence in the town.The Civil Guard has deployed 75 extra agents in Torre Pacheco and has made "an appeal to calm"…

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Located in the heart of the region of Campo de Cartagena and just half an hour drive from Murcia city is Torre Pacheco, a quiet agricultural town that this week has become a powder keg due to tensions with the immigrant population, specifically the Maghrebi, with two nights followed by riots that have forced to reinforce the police presence in the town.The Civil Guard has deployed 75 extra agents in Torre Pacheco and has made "an appeal to calm"…

·Madrid, Spain
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In Torre Pacheco in south-eastern Spain, the police presence is to be strengthened: members of the ultra-right milieu want to take action against migrants.

·Vienna, Austria
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The Murcian town of Torre Pacheco has experienced moments of tension this evening when faced groups of young people, "many of them arrived from outside" according to the mayor,...

·Madrid, Spain
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In an atmosphere of growing tension, the Guardia Civil has reinforced surveillance in Torre Pacheco (Murcia) following the proclamations launched by Vox and other ultras groups against migrants. According to the local newspaper La Opinión de Murcia, several groups of violent people (many of them, from outside the municipality) toured during this morning the streets of the town armed with sticks and went to houses where they knew foreigners lived…

·Spain
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After the peaceful rally organized by the town council in solidarity with the sexagenarian neighbor who received a brutal beating last Wednesday, groups of radicals began a persecution of young Maghrebians on the streets

·Spain
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If the atmosphere in Torre Pacheco is already heated enough with clashes between residents and groups of illegal immigrants after the latter beat an elderly man, some politicians like Ione Belarra have decided to add fuel to the fire with her opportunistic statements, branding everyone "racist"—for a change—and her magic solution of granting papers to everyone. But the secretary general of Podemos has only succeeded in increasing the outrage and…

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Eldiario.es broke the news in Spain on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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