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Spain: battles around a Catalan rapper

2021-02-19T18:25:48.912Z


The arrest on Tuesday evening of Pablo Hasél sparked violence in several cities and a left-right clash.


Madrid

Since the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasél on Tuesday evening, sentenced to nine months in prison for apologizing for terrorism and insulting the Crown, Barcelona has had no respite night.

The demonstrations punctuated with violence, carried out mainly by young men between 18 and 25, controlled by any structured political movement, according to the police, agitated the Catalan capital, but also Madrid and Valencia.

In total, around 100 people were arrested in three days and three nights.

Throwing stones, fires in garbage bins, attack, Thursday evening, of the editorial staff of

El Periódico de Catalunya

, to the cry of "

Premsa espanyola, manipuladora"

... The newspaper published in Barcelona was thus the victim of a small minority of exalted self-proclaimed defenders of freedom of expression.

To read also:

The bet of the moderation of the Catalan republicans

This is not the only paradox of this affair.

The issue has the complexity of aggregating, to an almost banal debate on the limits of freedom of expression, aspects that are totally

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Source: lefigaro

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