The presence of the group that the organizers linked to the pro-ETA environment, Negu Gorriak, who arrived from Pamplona to Ceuta to show solidarity with the Moroccan immigrants, has caused serious incidents in the port and surrounding areas, to the point that the car of a woman who had nothing to do with said group and who arrived on the ferry, has been stoned and caused numerous damages, which have been reported to the Police. The protesters, whose objective was to prevent the group from entering, have confused it with the procession that accompanied it. As local sources have confirmed to LA RAZÓN, the situation reached such a point of tension that the Police had to intervene. In the early hours of the night and in order to protect them from the anger of the protesters, Civil Guard agents kept members of the group under guard on the first floor of the port facilities.
The rally, according to El Faro de Ceuta, had been called through social networks and had as its motto “enough is enough against the radicals”, they rejected the “pro-ETA radical groups” who, they maintained, were going to land in the city. Shouting “whore ETA, whore ETA, eh eh“, received the vehicles that disembarked in Ceuta. In addition, there have been confrontations with the Police who urged them to go to the Trampolín to expel the immigrants. There is at least one detainee after the damage caused to the aforementioned car. There have been moments of great tension. The Police have had to mobilize members of the UIP and the UPR.
“Let him come out, we are going to mess it up every day,” the protesters shouted. It has been one of the toughest concentrations of all the actions that have taken place, with roadblocks and shouting, the newspaper highlights.with the launching of smoke canisters against the protesters who wanted to prevent the disembarkation of members of the group.
In a press release they indicated that the objective of the trip was “to put the body as a shield against the unprecedented violence that refugees are suffering” in a highly militarized area like Ceuta, with “racist and fascist attacks” and the “violent attitude of the security forces and bodies of the State and the army.”
“We are going to set fire to the trampoline,” one of the participants shouted. They have yelled at the police that “there are many comrades underground because of those bastards.” “You have to do this on the Trampoline, not here.”