This has been a heated summer with multiple racist arsons. Protests and even attacks against centers for minors and migrants have multiplied throughout Spain. The most notable was the incident in Torre Pacheco, but there have also been attacks against centers for minors in Vallirana (with Molotov cocktails), in Marcilla (Navarra), riots in Piera (where incendiary devices were also thrown in May), in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), and in Sabadell, and persecutions in Hernani (Guipúzcoa). In San Sebastián, "hunts" for North African and African people have been organized through a Telegram group. These are just a few of the cases. We thus find ourselves following in the wake of Europe, which has been mired for some time in a crisis of vigilantism where the rise in violence against migrants, and especially North African minors, seems unstoppable.

A second consecutive night of violence in the town of Ballymena, 45 kilometers north of Belfast (Northern Ireland), has seen what police have described as "racist riots." These riots have partially spread, though not as seriously, to some areas in the north of the provincial capital and the towns of Newtownabbey and Cartown. Protesters threw Molotov cocktails, bricks, and rockets at police, who responded with rubber bullets, water cannons, and riot dogs. While eleven police officers were injured on Monday night, this time there were seventeen.