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Tension in the Center of Madrid with Police Charges and Arrests

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Morning with some scenes of tension in Madrid during the general strike. There have been blockades and pickets at different accesses to the city, which have caused long delays on the roads surrounding the Spanish capital. Hours later, the focus has moved to Gran Via, where there have been charges from the National Police riot police to clear the street. "An extraordinary success of this strike, only clouded by police violence. We cannot allow a …

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The general strike took over more than two hours on Wednesday on the Gran Vía Madrid, where hundreds of protesters cut off traffic, in the rain and at the rate of whistles, until the National Police intervened to clear the street. Charges were cleared with two detainees for alleged crimes of attack on the authority and moments of tension in the main commercial artery of the Spanish capital.

·Pamplona, Spain
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Busy for two hours the central Gran Via. Over 40 stops throughout the country. 'High participation but not homogeneous' (ANSA)

·Rome, Italy
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In the centre of Madrid, the Spanish police used force against the participants in the general strike after blocking the movement on Grand Via Street. The general 24-hour strike in Spain called for a solution to the housing crisis, wage increases and cost-of-living increases, reports RIA News with reference to RTVE. "Clashes between protesters and riot police forces during which the police used force" reported that the movement on one of the cen…

Lean Right

Interior raises to 42 those arrested for the incidents during the general strike. Pickets force the closure of shops in Madrid and the police charge against those who cut the Gran Vía

·Spain
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Morning with some scenes of tension in Madrid during the general strike. There have been blockades and pickets at different accesses to the city, which have caused long delays on the roads surrounding the Spanish capital. Hours later, the focus has moved to Gran Via, where there have been charges from the National Police riot police to clear the street. "An extraordinary success of this strike, only clouded by police violence. We cannot allow a …

Lean Left

Spain has experienced again, years later, what is a general strike. The call for this 11th of November, launched by the Sindicato de Tenquilinas and supported by the trade union centers, reached a consensus among the organizations that had not taken place in the last 14 years. From the first hour news pickets and information about large companies closed or operating half-gas by the strike, as happened at the Navantia shipyard in Ferrol. Somethin…

·Madrid, Spain
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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
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