Four people were arrested and 39 police officers were injured during protests in the streets of Valencia, Spain, where citizens demanded the resignation of the president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, for his management of DANA, the Spanish Confederation reported on Sunday. of Police (CEP), the union of the country’s National Police.
At the beginning of the demonstration, incidents occurred in front of the Town Hall, where a group of young people threw flares and mud in an action that required the intervention of riot police, 20minutos states. Then, a group of violent protesters attacked the agents when they were heading towards the Generalitat.
As a result, two of the four suspects were arrested for public disorder and two others for attacking law enforcement officers. In addition, 13 other protesters were identified. According to police sources, the perpetrators of the riots belonged to the extreme left and from the beginning of the protest they tried to break it up.
At the end of the march, in the vicinity of the Plaza de la Virgen, mud, chairs and other objects were once again thrown at the police, who again used force and subdued at least one of the participants.
The protesters demanded political responsibilities for the “negligent management” of the crisis caused by the torrential rains of DANA, which devastated dozens of municipalities in the area.
The demonstration, in which around 130,000 people participated, was the most massive in the history of Valencia since it was called against the Iraq war in 2003, El Diario observes.
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