Night of riots in Mataró: four minors arrested for confrontations with fire with the police
The tension began Tuesday morning with the eviction of a family with four children and the arrest of three more young people
BarcelonaNight of riots in Mataró. The Mossos d'Esquadra had already reinforced their uniformed presence in the Cerdanyola neighborhood of the capital of Maresme after an eviction this Tuesday ended with three minors arrested for throwing blunt objects, such as paving stones, at the police line. These actions against the police, however, were repeated at night, according to Mossos sources. A group of young people burned a dozen containers and threw stones and incendiary devices at the police. In total, the Mossos made five arrests, four of them minors.
The young people were arrested for public disorder and the only adult for a crime of attacking agents of authority. The Mossos deployed units from the mobile brigade and the ARRO to restore public order and, for their part, the Bombers de la Generalitat carried out nine services to extinguish containers and a brush fire in Parc de Can Boada, where 70 square meters of vegetation burned. The Bombers carried out their operations between 9:19 p.m. and 00:17 a.m.
The eviction on Tuesday morning was carried out against a family with four minors and lit the spark in the neighborhood. Five Mossos agents were injured facing a group of about fifty people who threw stones and glass bottles at the police line.
, a year ago there were already several nights of riots The local Housing Union lamented a "criminalizing" attitude from the mayor and that the housing crisis in this area of the city is not being addressed.
The precedent from a year ago
In fact, a year ago there were already several nights of disturbances in the same neighborhood of Mataró, then motivated by an attempted occupation frustrated by the Catalan police. It was also very young boys, mostly minors, who confronted the police. Then, in conversation with ARA, some of these young people denounced the lack of opportunities in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Maresme. They focused on housing and told stories of friends' parents who are squatting, or who had to leave the neighborhood because their rent was increased. They also denounced "massive identifications" by the police "for no reason".