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The 17-year-old boy hit by a van of the Mossos d'Esquadra on Wednesday in Tarragona while pushing a container to use it as a barricade on public roads remains stable at the Joan XXIII hospital, where he is suffering from bruises. In the other hospital in the city, that of Santa Tecla, three other minor injuries were treated, far from the 16 cases recorded during Tuesday's incidents. Among those who received medical attention were at least three police officers, which - along with about twenty arrests - gives an idea of ​​the level of violence experienced on both nights. Tarragona, a quiet city of medium size and not accustomed to this type of disturbance, feels frightened as the sun goes down.

On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, more than 50 containers were burned and another 30 were unusable. The fires, Molotov cocktails and the stones against the crystals are going to cost the public treasury about 150,000 euros, according to calculations by the City Council. The darkest face of the protests over the ruling issued last Monday by the Supreme Court contrasted with that in the morning , when a thousand people undertook one of the five Marches for freedom that converge on Friday in Barcelona in a more classical choreography of peaceful movement, based on stelades and yellow wardrobe, which is the one that prides itself on independence.

In the opinion of the mayor of Tarragona, Pau Ricomà (ERC), the schizophrenia of that double face - day and night - is the result of indignation for "an unjust sentence" that is being expressed in different ways : "From the Marches for freedom and peaceful resistance actions, which have all my support, to others that I cannot approve in any way ».

Despite the explicit condemnation of the young radicals who are sowing the chaos, the Republican mayor pulls the classic independence argument to re-point to law enforcement and demand that the abuse of the 17-year-old boy be investigated, in addition to "the aggression indiscriminate of the National Police to clearly peaceful protesters or the registered image of a mosso d'esquadra mocking from the police vehicle ». "I condemn all violence, without exceptions," remarks the first mayor of Tarragona.

The inconsistency of Ricomà's discourse in measuring this kale borroka again by the same standard and the security forces has only penetrated into radical sectors. However, it does not convince the socio-economic agents with a certain weight in Tarragona, more moderate, who are still scandalized by a pitiful spectacle never seen. They demand greater responsibility and leadership at the head of the new municipal government that emerged from the elections last May.

The serious events of these days in Tarragona have magnetized the compass of public opinion, as can be seen through social networks, where some are scandalized by the outrage of a young man while committing vandalism, but justify the aggression of a man to a militant of Vox.

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