Gema Peñalosa Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-02:15

The public calm maintained by the Ministry of the Interior in the face of the determination of farmers and ranchers to take Madrid today contrasts with the strategy that is designed day by day in the offices of the high command of

the National Police and the Civil Guard

depending on the future. of the protest.

Fernando Grande-Marlaska

will not prevent the tractors from entering the capital but he has mobilized all the

Police Intervention Units (UIP)

- the riot police - in the country and has ordered the Armed Institute to be inflexible.

Traffic brigade agents have the mandate

not to overlook anything at all

: not respecting the minimum safety distance between tractors or slightly exceeding the speed limit are, these days, grounds for sanctions. «

The order is to look at everything with a magnifying glass

. "Any detail, no matter how unimportant it may be and that under normal circumstances would not be grounds for sanction," reveals one of the guards assigned to this brigade. The ministry has sent this message to the groups, Benemérita sources reveal, through those responsible for Traffic and taking great care not to leave this instruction - which has unnerved many agents - in writing, aware of the controversy.

Each device in both the Civil Guard and the National Police is being put into practice

with secrecy and "short notice"

, which is causing discomfort among the affected staff. The confusion that

Fernando Grande-Marlaska

tries to hide arises from the impossibility of reliably calculating the scope of the mobilization, which is intensifying every day and has already accumulated 20 arrests. The ministry does not know how many protesters intend to enter the capital with the intention, apparently, of

reaching Ferraz

and for this reason, it has mobilized all units.

Today in Madrid there will be the same device - in number of agents - as the one deployed

on the day Princess Leonor swore in the Constitution

, police sources consulted say. There will be a total of 12 riot teams to guard the city, which translates into nearly 500 troops.

Furthermore, as revealed by the same police sources,

all members of the UIP in Spain are being kept alert

in case it is necessary. The device started late last night with 120 UIP agents already deployed on the streets, especially those in the center. The main guideline they must follow is to clear any roads that lead to important places for the population such as hospitals.

Regarding the roads, the order to the Civil Traffic Guard that

the tractors do not invade the highways so as not to reach the urban centers

. The Interior mobilized the State Security Forces and Corps on Monday night, when the monitoring of social networks showed that the next day's session was serious despite having been convened in a somewhat improvised manner and without the umbrella of an association. concrete. After certifying the farmers' intention to reach the different capitals of provinces and autonomous communities and even Madrid, the maximum is to

prevent their access and retain them on secondary roads under supervision

. These sections are where the sanctions have been concentrated and the altercations have been recorded. In total, agents have identified 7,925 people, filed 3,035 administrative complaints and arrested 20 protesters.

Last Thursday was the most complicated day of the agrarian revolt. The epicenter of the day was the blocking of the roads with tractors, barricades and pickets. One of the most critical moments occurred at the entrance to Pamplona, ​​when farmers and ranchers forcibly separated the Civil Guard patrols in order to continue their path towards the urban center.

In the Navarrese capital, protesters held a stand at the doors of the house of the president of Navarra,

María Chivite

, who was not allowed to leave. Grande-Marlaska spoke about this fact yesterday in an interview on La Hora de la 1 in which he took a photograph of the situation and left the tractor trailer on hold, stating that it did not concern him.

The Minister of the Interior protected the right to demonstrate but pointed out that "the rest of society also has the right because citizens, he insisted, "have the right to demonstrate." Of course, he pointed out that "the rest of society also has the right to live in peace."

Grande-Marlaska claimed to be unaware of the group's intentions to reach Madrid today and take their demands to Ferraz, headquarters of the PSOE. "We are not aware of any type of communication from the Government Delegation," she stated.

He insisted that all demonstrations must be communicated and that in a State governed by the rule of law,

the right to demonstrate is permitted as long as it is "in accordance with the law

. "

"Every society in a State of Law must be aware of compliance with the law for the exercise of rights," Grande-Marlaska warned in reference to the complaints that have been imposed this week due to demonstrations that had not been communicated to the delegations of Government of each autonomous community.