Three people arrested for incidents with the Catalan Alliance that left one injured
The detainees are members of the pro-independence left who clashed with a tent belonging to the Orriols party.
BarcelonaThe Mossos d'Esquadra arrested three members of the left-wing independence movement this Saturday, including Adriana Llena, a member of the CUP, for participating in the incidents that ended with an injured Aliança Catalana militant when he fell to the ground and hit his head. The incident occurred on January 25, when the far-right party set up a tent in the Les Corts neighborhood of Barcelona to recruit members. Around noon, dozens of anti-fascists showed up at the tent and confronted AC militants, resulting in one member being injured and having to be taken to the hospital.
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The Mossos d'Esquadra attempted to arrest the alleged suspect in the fall of the Aliança militant, but he escaped. Almost two months later, the police made three arrests this Saturday. The SEM (Secretary of State for the Interior) took the injured man to the hospital, according to Aliança Catalana. The far-right party filed a complaint, and the Mossos d'Esquadra opened an investigation. Following the arrests, Aliança Catalana leader Sílvia Orriols mocked the suspect in a tweet on X: "Have they arrested you? How serious, you..." For her part, Patri, the spokesperson for Alerta Solidaria, assured the press that the arrests are "one more step in the constant harassment carried out by Aliança Catalana" and warned that "there are only two paths": "Either we stand with Aliança Catalana or with the gang of political freedom and social rights." "They won't confuse us by hiding behind the Estelada," she warned, as the Catalan Alliance wants to "strengthen the Spanish state, its repressive laws, and its police forces," she added.
After the events, the leader of the Catalan Alliance, Sílvia Orriols, asked the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, if they should "kill them" so that the authorities would act. "Help me identify all these sons of bitches who seriously injured a comrade today," she said. to X. AlsoHe expressed solidarity with the secretary general of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, who denounced "the violence now being exercised against anyone who dissents" and added that before "the separatists celebrated the stone-throwing against Vox." The secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, condemned the aggression "without nuance": "Nothing justifies violence, no matter how vast the ideological distance," goes publish on X.