The Lleida Urban Guard denies Aliança Catalana

BarcelonaBetween twenty and thirty cars are stolen each week, and the same number of robberies occur daily in the Lleida region, "some very violent." Ninety percent of those arrested for these crimes are of North African origin. These are some of the figures published on Tuesday by the Catalan Alliance of the Lands of Lleida on social media. Silvia Orriols' party put numbers to the crimes committed in this area and, once again, targeted the Muslim community in its offensive against people from Morocco. The Lleida Municipal Police (Guardia Urbana) took less than an hour to deny these figures, which the far-right party claimed had been provided to them by sources within the force itself. "We categorically deny the data you are disseminating and that it is official information from the Lleida Municipal Police. What you are stating is not true in any case. We ask that you correct yourself and stop spreading falsehoods. Thank you," the Lleida local police responded from their official account.

This Wednesday morning, the Aliança Catalana delegation in Lleida responded, but far from defending the veracity of the accusations made, it merely demanded official data. "Please send the regulations to the political head of the Lleida Municipal Police, the Socialist councilor for Security, Mobility, and Civic Responsibility, Cristina Morón. Let her publish the data that the residents of Lleida are legally entitled to know (Article 20 of Law 16/1991). Thank you," the Islamophobic group wrote on its social media.

On Tuesday, just after the Lleida Municipal Police's amendment, Aliança claimed that the information had been provided by the force itself "at the time of processing the complaint," without specifying which complaint it was and acknowledging that it did not come from an official statement. In a thread on X, he justified the police amendment due to "pressure from the Paeria" (Lleida City Council) and demanded transparency in the data after painting an apocalyptic picture of the capital. "We understand that the Lleida City Police have to deny it due to pressure from the Paeria. But the reality on the street speaks for itself: daily insecurity, mass robberies, and fear in l'Horta. We demand total transparency: open statistics on nationality in crimes," he told X. ~BK_SLT_NA