The almost forty nights of protests in the vicinity of the PSOE national headquarters have resulted in 52 people being injured; fifty are national police and a couple of protesters, according to the balance that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has offered in the Congress of Deputies, where he has appeared dragged by the Popular Party to give an account of the actions of the National Police during the demonstrations against the amnesty in Ferraz. He has asked the popular ones, along with the extreme right, “not to politicize the police forces, as they do with all institutions, including the Crown.”
A couple of hours before his appearance, during the Government control session, the head of the Interior had already referred to the demonstrators of the protests that have been encouraged by Vox. “Fascists,” he has called some of the attendees who came hooded and with swastikas. But the Popular Party had questioned him directly on the night of November 6, in which the Police used tear gas against the protesters. Well, the police intervention that evening was carried out, according to the minister's words, "by applying the principles of congruence, opportunity and proportionality, and following the established procedure of progressive use of means."
“You criticize the police units. "I defend them," he said to the Chamber, in which the blue bench reserved for the Government has been completely empty during his intervention. Nor was that of the Popular Party, who had requested his appearance, very crowded. In addition to the balance of injuries, the minister wanted to list some of the "objects" seized from the protesters: a shovel, an iron bar, flares, boxes of fireworks, ski poles, pepper spray, a gun...
For the head of the Interior, the night of November 6 was a turning point in the vicinity of Ferraz: from that day on, the people who gathered “closer to the fence” were “young people with covered faces and ultra aesthetics.” . His modus operandi, as described by the minister, was to “cut the ties that joined the fence, making it clear that he could attack the police line.” “There was the throwing of glass bottles and other blunt objects, while they shouted racist and fascist slogans and chants and insulted the National Police in a degrading manner,” Marlaska recalled.
With this assessment of the protests, the minister has asked the opposition “not to politicize the actions of the Security Forces and Corps.” And he has referred directly to the Popular Party, of whom he has said that he goes to Congress to “join the chorus of those who seek to denigrate, in a partisan and opportunistic manner, the work of our agents.” “Ladies and gentlemen of the right, do not make the wrong opponent, do not come to Congress to question the Police, who carry out their task in an exquisite and exemplary manner,” he added.
