Almost four years ago several members of the ultraleft group District 14 They were arrested. The police accused them of crimes of public disorder and aggravated injuries for ideological reasons and threats for doing what they called “posh hunting” during the festivities of the Madrid neighborhood of Moratalaz.
This “hunt” consisted of threatening and attacking anyone who wore brand name clothing to the shout of “shitty faces” and “Nazis out”. And so they did: they brutally attacked several of them and caused serious public disorder. During the aforementioned parties they met in the booth that they ran and from there they went to areas of “young poshies” – like the booth that he had placed Citizens– where they carried out “indiscriminate attacks” and stabbed a young man in the face who had to undergo surgery. Another was also hit in the face, causing the loss of several teeth.
This event had important political repercussions within the Palacio de Cibeles. And is that Now Madrid – at that time at the head of the city government – supported District 14. Manuela Carmena’s party in Moratalaz released a statement where he showed his support for the aggressors and asked for their release. What’s more, the then councilor president of the district, Pablo Carmona, He spoke to the media a few days later at the press conference that the ultraleft group offered to defend his “presumption of innocence.”
“Yesterday there were not two opposing sides”
Four years later, this group is again the protagonist for assaulting a young man who participated in the pan in this Madrid district. This Thursday the mayor of Madrid has referred to it when asked at the press conference after the Governing Board. José Luis Martínez Almeida, who has recalled these events, has expressed his “total and absolute” condemnation and he wanted to leave behind any hint of equidistance: “The incidents did not occur yesterday as a consequence of a peaceful concentration but as a consequence of a gang in Moratalaz called District 14, which understands that others do not have the same rights that they have“
“Yesterday there were no two sides facing each other. Yesterday there was a peaceful rally – to my knowledge these rallies (the so-called ‘caceroladas’) in the city of Madrid have not yet produced a single incident- “. What happened afterwards is the consequence of” there are people who have not they respect the rights that correspond to all of us and, therefore, they do not respect the constitutional right to the demonstration and the protest, and in this case, that dissenting opinions can be issued regarding the Government of the Nation, “stressed the mayor.
“We are going to prosecute all conduct that is intolerant with the exercise of the rights of the people of Madrid. There is no room for intolerance and there is no room for violence in the city of Madrid. And even less there is room for the violence of those who understand that their rights are above others, “said Almeida.
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The attacked: a taxi driver without work
As published this Thursday The worldThe victim’s name is Alberto, a young taxi driver who was the first time they went down the street and who were protesting peacefully, as he himself explained to his colleagues, to whom he also told that he is a self-employed man who had left to protest after being without work for two months. It belongs to the Taxi Guild Association and has already contacted the entity’s lawyers to initiate the corresponding legal actions.
He was transferred to the Gregorio Marañón hospital, with a head injury, where he was discharged at two in the morning.
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