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Yesterday they received the 28 elderly who were evicted from the residence in Alcalá del Valle, all of whom were sick with coronavirus, received stones in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz). A group of neighbors gathered at the entrances to the city to try to prevent the entry of the ambulance caravan, which had to be escorted by the National Police.

They did so, as reported by the National Police Force on Wednesday, throwing stones at the medical vehicles, but they also came to put a car in the way of the convoy whose occupants, two men, 32 and 25 years old, were detained.

The violent reception of these elders was not limited to the entrance of the town. Once in the facilities of the leisure residence where the Andalusian Government had relocated them, in the surroundings, fifty people were concentrated in a violent attitude and who threatened to take measures if more patients came to the town, forcing them to the National Police to establish a protection cordon around the building.

The violence did not end there and several explosive devices were launched during the night from buildings near the residence where the elderly remain with Covid-19. The first of them exploded on public roads when several agents identified two individuals, although it did not reach them. The second was launched half an hour later in the same place and with the same result.

Up to that point, officers from the Scientific Police traveled, who collected the remains of the two devices to proceed with their analysis.

In other places in La Línea the acts of vandalism were reproduced, with the burning of containers, whose perpetrators are already being sought by the Police.

Mayor's complaints

The transfer of these elderly from Alcalá del Valle has caused, in addition to these violent reactions, discomfort and complaints in the municipality of La Línea. Including its mayor, Juan Franco, who has condemned the violent incidents but has criticized the way in which the Andalusian Government has carried out the relocation of these elderly coronavirus patients.

The perpetrators of the violent acts are a "group of undesirable and brainless people who do not represent our city," said the councilor of this town in Campo de Gibraltar, who, however, has insisted in statements to Canal Sur that the transfer " it has not been managed well "and that he himself has been informed by the press.

The mayor of La Linea assured on Tuesday morning he knew "on television" the number of people who came to La Linea and the Board was not provided with "more information until two o'clock in the afternoon", action by which with Subsequently you have been asked "apologies".

After defending that "in a moment of national emergency we should all be paddling in the same direction", Franco wanted to make it clear that his complaint about the lack of information is due to the fact that the transfer of the elders from Alcalá to La Línea could have occurred " communicated in another way and avoid alarmism, "since he has been convinced that the" undesirables "who protested thought that the elders" were going to be on the loose in the city. "

On the contrary, he explained that the elderly transferred from La Línea "will be perfectly cared for by workers who will also be in a confinement regime" in the leisure residence, but "if the information is not transferred, you will find the reaction of undesirables that do not represent us. "

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