The Barcelona Urban Guard arrested two screens from l’Esplai del Pi this Sunday for allegedly assaulting two brokers after a live performance organized by the ‘esplai’ in Josep Oriol sq. within the metropolis’s Gòtic neighborhood.
The occasions occurred on Sunday, round 02:00 hours, when the brokers went to the sq. the place the entity celebrated its forty ninth anniversary with a live performance that ended half an hour earlier than the incident.
The residents of the realm had “expressed their discomfort as a result of it had not but completed” and the Urban Police contacted a kind of answerable for the occasion to ask her to cease the exercise. They agreed on yet another track earlier than ending, “however then they continued on stage.”
Injured brokers and protection
For this motive, they turned to a different organizer to finish the exercise, however “she started to insult the brokers and throw cans at them.” Another organizer allegedly “pushed them with the intention of throwing them out to keep away from identification,” so the brokers accompanied two organizers to a quieter space of the sq. to elucidate to them that the rationale for the identification was none apart from to have the ability to draw up minutes. occasion inspection.
At that point, one of many organizers allegedly “hit an officer from behind”, and a patrol automotive detained the alleged assailant however, based on the police, they have been crushed by different members. Given these details, the brokers acted utilizing the defenses “to supply safety within the setting,” whereas the members within the sq. allegedly continued to throw beer cans on the brokers.
Two cops have been handled by the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) for minor accidents and scratches. The Urban Guard of Barcelona has opened a “reserved info” to attempt to make clear the details.
A “police abuse”, for the ‘esplai’
An official model of the police that differs utterly from that of l’Esplai del Pi, which has lamented the “scenario of violence and police abuse” and has ensured that the Urban Police appeared within the space with out addressing any of the organizers current and, whereas they have been accumulating all the fabric, one other patrol appeared to warn them that the occasion needed to finish.
They have additionally detailed that that they had permission till 2 within the morning and that, at the moment, “nearly had every thing collected”, however the brokers tried to determine two organizers and allegedly threatened them that, if they didn’t, they might go to the police station. .
“Given the scenario, the encircling colleagues recorded the scene and at that second was when the primary assault happened: one of many mediators was stretched by the arm and so they took her close to the police vehicles,” they added.
Another particular person was additionally allegedly grabbed by the neck and violently eliminated behind the police cordon and “they broke the hand and fingers of a colleague who was making an attempt to assist one of many detainees”, at which level the confrontations and feedback started. derogatory
According to the ‘esplai’, which belongs to the Esplais Movement of the Pere Tarrés Foundation, the brokers “pulled by the hair and suffocated” a participant, fired pepper spray and subdued a colleague with a knee to the neck, amongst different issues. To “denounce and confront the violence obtained”, the entity has already known as a protest for this coming Friday at half previous 5 within the afternoon within the Vicenç Martorell sq. in Barcelona.
Many are apprehensive in regards to the night time of dissabte going to move on the finish of the 49 years competition of l’Esplai del Pi.
Both me and my crew are involved with the affected sufferers, as a result of they’re involved about who they’re seeing.
➡️There has been an inner investigation to make clear the details.
— jordi rabassa (@jrabassa) May 22, 2023
For his half, the councilor for Ciutat Vella, Jordi Rabassa, has proven himself to be “very involved” about what occurred: “Both I and my crew are involved with the affected residents, as a result of we’re involved about what now we have seen”, he added On twitter. The Councilor for Education, Pau González, has expressed himself alongside the identical strains. “What now we have seen can’t be repeated, that’s the reason an investigation has been opened,” he mentioned.
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