Three people arrested for incidents with the Catalan Alliance that left one injured

BarcelonaThe Mossos d'Esquadra arrested three members of the left-wing independence movement this Saturday, including a CUP activist, 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 group 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.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) attempted to arrest the suspect allegedly involved 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, which denounced the "red line" of "gratuitous violence." The far-right group filed a complaint, and the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) opened an investigation.

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 colleague 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.