The head of the Instructional Court No. 49 of Madrid, Josefa Bustos Manjón, has opened an investigation into an alleged crime of subterfuge against the government delegate in Madrid and the police commanders who carried out on November 6 the orders to release gases tear gas against demonstrators in the Near Ferraz Street, the federal headquarters of the PSOE, which has called for protest against the upcoming inauguration of Pedro Sánchez and the implementation of the amnesty law.
The judge is therefore hearing the complaint of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory Raíces, which is directed against the government delegate and the police commanders who “executed the orders intended to suppress the protests called for on Monday evening, November 6th (.. .) were carried out. .) at the PSOE headquarters in Madrid.” According to the text of the complaint to which EL PAÍS had access and to which recordings of the protests are attached, that day “from 8 p.m. onwards, the police took action against the people gathered there and even used gas and tear gas to disperse them.” the crowd who expressed their dissatisfaction with the words of the incumbent government president.”
In the order, to which this newspaper has had access, the judge agrees to open a preliminary hearing to determine the nature and circumstances of this event and “to name the people who took part in it” and is directed against the Government delegate Francisco Martín Aguirre and against the police commanders who carried out the orders, as well as “other persons criminally responsible for the events”. The court chairman forwarded the complaint to the public prosecutor's office to report on its admission.
Riot police at the anti-amnesty rally in Madrid. Jaime Villanueva
The judge opened the trial only for the alleged crime of subterfuge, one of the four crimes charged in the complaint, which also charged the defendants with the crime of unlawful dispersal of a peaceful assembly, bodily harm and torture, and breach of moral integrity .
The plaintiff association is violating the Democratic Memory Act. He rejected the withdrawal of the gold medal for labor merit awarded to the dictator Francisco Franco, announced by the second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, in July 2023. The same institution also requested that Dolores Ibárruri's name be withdrawn. Pasionaria, from the street map of Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz).
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The protest on November 6th was one of the largest recorded since the beginning of the month, with 3,800 participants, according to the government delegation, and so far the protests have taken place near the PSOE's federal headquarters in Madrid, with the number of participants decreasing. That evening's demonstration, in which some protesters threw flares and fireworks, resulted in three arrests, two men for disobedience and assault on authority and a woman for that second crime. A day later, on November 7, the party decided to close its offices across Spain due to the call for new rallies “for security reasons” and given the “violent appearance” that the previous day's rally had taken on.
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