6-F Platform organized on social networks in the heat of agricultural protests. It will take legal action through legal and criminal channels against the accusations revealed on Saturday. Against transporters and farmers concentrated around Madrid’s Metropolitan Stadium. The group’s legal advisor, Xaime da Pena, demands that the Government sit outside the industry’s majority associations (Asaja, COAG and UPA) to negotiate with them, and demands the resignation of Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Stating that up to 30 riot police officers will be reported and up to 60 injured, Da Pena said, “Human rights have been violated and if necessary, we will go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.” . .
Farmers finally gathered around the Metropolitan Stadium from 17:00 last Saturday, accompanied by members of the National Platform in Defense of Transportation, a minority association responsible for paralyzing road distribution in March 2022, to call for an indefinite suspension of transportation. their activities. At the end of this meeting, National Police files charges against some bulk carriers and farmers There are injured people near the area.
Da Pena stated that there was “fatigue” among farmers after seven days of mobilization. “A lot of fines have been issued,” he said. Therefore, he explained that there is a risk for farmers who continue to block the roads. “Whoever wants to cut it can cut it, but he faces sanctions,” he says.
The association’s legal counsel said some of the agents who filed criminal complaints against protesters on Saturday “They didn’t speak Spanish”, but they didn’t offer any further details or say whether they would take legal action over it. “This is something that people who were there interpreted.” Da Pena announced that he envisioned a meeting could be convened this week to “unite the movement” and lead to a single mobilization of farmers. He also suggested that a demonstration could be held in Madrid this afternoon, without giving further details.
Police will charge the leader of one of the 6-F spokesmen
On the other hand, Madrid’s National Police Headquarters is preparing to file a complaint that will be sent to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office to investigate a possible hate crime committed by the leader of Platform 6-F on Saturday.Lola Guzmán, police sources confirmed to Europa Press.
In a video circulating on social networks, Guzmán called “criminals and sons of bitches” We would like to thank the national police officers of the Intervention Unit who intervened with members of this platform who tried to cut the M-40 without permission at the height of the Metropolitan square on Saturday. “If you raise a baton at a Spaniard, you will face him. ETA killed a few of you sons of bitches,” he told the agents.
Considering this, Da Pena stated that they did not agree with this idea.He stated that he had spoken to him “personally” and that he was aware that “this was an impassioned statement because he had been beaten by agents.” The legal entity responsible for Platform 6-F said, “I think he is disabled because I know he doesn’t think so, he actually defends all the security forces a little bit, but he is upset.”
Seventh day of protests
Spanish farmers hold seventh day of protests this MondayWith tractor trailers and road closures across the country, including in the province of Madrid, where the majority are already demonstrating, the 6F platform will expand the details of its action calendar.
Parallel, Transporters of the National Platform in Defense of Transport (mostly self-employed or SMEs whose services are undertaken by large companies in the sector) continue the second day of their indefinite strike to defend claims that they felt were very similar to those of farmers and ranchers.
Until today, Protests were also felt on roads where traffic was blocked in many parts of the province of Seville. (as on the A-92 in Arahal in both directions and 6 secondary roads); Badajoz (N-525 in La Roca de la Sierra and EX-328 in Montijo) and Cáceres (EX-109 in Moraleja).
Traffic was also stopped in various parts of the province of Huesca and Zaragoza. On the AP-2 eastbound towards Barcelona at the height of Soses (Lleida) and on the A-43 in both directions at the height of Villarrobledo (Albacete). Traffic slowed down in Híjar (Teruel, N-232); Málaga (A-374 at Ronda) and Murcia, access to Cartagena via A30.
Tractors also occupied roads in La Rioja, Navarra, while in Malaga they caused disruptions in access to the central food supply market Mercamálaga.. In Alicante, around fifty farmers blocked access to the Granadina industrial zone in San Isidro, one of the main fruit and vegetable distribution centers in the southeast of the peninsula, from 8 pm yesterday until 9 am this Monday.