National contagion of violence against the state of alarm and restrictions

• Covid. Night of serious riots against the curfew in Santander, Burgos, Valencia, Zaragoza and Barcelona

• Covid.The Mossos d'Esquadra did not foresee the high degree of violence in the protests over the restrictions in Barcelona

The new wave of the coronavirus is causing a new collateral effect: increased concern about citizen security.

The restrictive measures that have been implemented in Spain under the protection of a new state of alarm are provoking public protests, which have degenerated into violent acts and arrests in nine autonomous communities.

In just six days, starting in Barcelona and Oviedo on Monday night, a current has been unleashed that continued on Thursday in

and, on Friday, on a traditional day of the beginning of the bridge, it went out of control at various points of Spain.

With almost the entire country confined, the altercations flared:

, again;

,

,

and, with special virulence, in

.

On Saturday the tide spread to Vitoria, Logroño and reached Madrid, where the Leganitos police station, along with Gran Vía, was attacked. The President of the Government was even condemned, who blamed "minority groups."

The great fear of State security is that an echo effect will occur and that they will be launched in a coordinated manner and with a national scope, since now it is more similar to a limited phenomenon, although violent to the point of having demanded the maximum attention .

At the moment, the specialists point out that the episodes that have been taking place since Monday are not due to "an organized pattern", but rather respond to sporadic calls by networks, encouraged by sectors called deniers, and that those who are signing up for these acts "They are the same as always", referring to extreme left and extreme right anti-system groups, as well as others linked to the Catalan independence movement - the CUP and Arran supported them on Monday appealing to the social damage of the crisis.

As proof of the origin of the violence, several of the detainees have a history of disorder.

The researchers are convinced that these episodes will be produced again in the next few hours, until the end of the bridge.

Expect "some relaxation" start again when the working day on Tuesday, reactivating again to -festivo week in

-.

The great fear today is that the "sympathy effect" will reach national quotas.

In fact, voices have already been raised within the police force demanding a new restructuring of shifts and vacations in order to have the maximum number of police officers to face a possible growing wave of violence.

A young man on a bike during a protest in Barcelona on Friday night.REUTERS

The members of the information services were already piloting social networks since the beginning of the week to try to locate any initiative of spontaneous protest that could degenerate into violence, as reality has confirmed.

As this newspaper already advanced, these specialists had been warning that, given the economic and social effect of the first slap of the pandemic, if an episode of great intensity of the health and social crisis were reproduced, the alterations in the streets would be a reality.

They pointed out then, at the beginning of July, that this protest could be focused on two fronts: the response to new restrictive mobility measures and, secondly, to the economic effects that begin to occur as a result of the damage of the coronavirus to the economy, to the pocket of the citizen.

That scenario, according to police analysts, was contemplated for a second wave that took place in October.

But the contagions were precipitated and the violent acts have arrived before the end of the month.

There are three areas that, according to Interior specialists, are of great concern:

and

.

In

, because these analysts understand that the most radical pro-independence activists will take advantage of citizen discontent over the management of the crisis to resume tension in the street.

In

, because the greatest media coverage will be sought to cause a contagion effect again.

The wick already lit at dawn this Sunday.

And finally, Navarra, because, in addition to being one of the communities that is applying the most restrictions, in police evaluations it always comes out as one of the most contagious with violence.

In recent days there have been serious incidents in other European countries.

But without a doubt, those from Italy are the most revealing.

Behind them are supposed groups of anti-establishment groups, which are very strong, both in Italy and Greece, and who have strong connections with Spain, where the anarchist movement has always had strong ties with those two countries.

For the

the challenge is twofold: how to develop a device that can meet the guidelines differentiated by communities, and implement preventive devices to avoid violent responses.

The connection with other European information services, such as those in Italy, have been more forcefully activated to avoid or at least detect in time if they start up that connection that, not so long ago, led to having cells both in Italy and in Greece and Spain of anarco-terrorists, the great fear of the State Security Forces.

These analysts warn that the social situation will grow in parallel with the economic crisis and unemployment.

As if the police tension were not enough, counterterrorism analysts from half of Europe agree that jihadist plots are taking advantage of the pandemic to further radicalize their supporters, in order for them to carry out individual actions.

France has become the first focus, but they fear that this appeal will spread to other countries.

For this reason, actions against jihadist recruitment schemes in Europe have multiplied.

And, as these specialists recall, Spain continues on a state of anti-terrorist alert 4, which is practically the maximum.

Some police voices already speak of having the Armed Forces to carry out some actions that are now in the hands of the State Security Forces to release troops.

The debate had not yet opened at the political level, but the events of the last few days are going to promote this problem on the agenda.

Because Friday night sets off the alarm.

In

, the altercations on Friday left 12 arrested and two stores looted;

seven protesters and 20 officers were treated for emergencies.

In

, focused on the Gamonal neighborhood, a neighborhood with a notable oppositional fabric, more than a hundred containers burned during the confrontation with stones with the security forces.

The skirmish, after a concentration of about 400 people, left two detainees, one of them a minor.

In

hundreds of people rallied against the curfew in Santander and Torrelavega, peacefully, but in the capital the protest led to clashes with the police that resulted in eight detainees for attacks on authority, disobedience and damage, in addition of four wounded policemen.

In

, just 80 people gathered in the Plaza de España to protest against the limitations of the state of alarm, but then violent events occurred in adjacent streets in which five people were arrested.

And in Valencia, seven people were arrested and five agents were treated after altercations after another unauthorized protest.

This Saturday, the wave grew.

was added to the list of cities with arrests, in Logroño the protesters attacked a Lacoste store and Madrid was impregnated with altercations, in the heart of the country's capital.

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