The impossible robot portrait of the rioters: from neo-Nazis to anti-working-class neighborhoods

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Sunday, 1 November 2020 - 21:58

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Logroño

,

,

,

,

.

And more.

From north to south, from left to right.

From the great avenues to the periphery.

Shouts of freedom but also barricades and cobblestones.

In some cases, looting.

Restrictions by the second wave have unleashed a nationwide spate of insurrection.

A phenomenon that security experts do not venture to put a unique last name.

Who's behind?

Since the middle of last week, twelve autonomies have registered disturbances from the time of the curfew.

They started in

and

, where they returned on Friday.

That night the security forces were surprised by the brutality and violence of the rebels, who came to loot a sports store.

In

, the same night, the Police were forced to retreat due to the aggressiveness of the protesters.

The same happened in Malaga on Saturday night, when the protesters fired flares at the patrol cars.

At the same time, in

, dozens of young people smashed the window of a popular clothing store and undressed the mannequins.

The local media already speak of "the night of broken glass" to refer to events of a harshness that had not been seen in the capital of La Rioja for years.

It is difficult to profile the average participant in these protests.

Vox accuses the "extreme left" of sabotaging the demonstrations of freelancers and workers, and Podemos points to "Nazis and fascists" as responsible for the altercations.

First they were linked to official demonstrations from various labor sectors, and later the clashes were blamed on radical and minority groups, according to security forces.

In the

the attendees were branded as deniers, while in Madrid or Santander the Police have considered that ultra soccer groups are those that have encouraged disorder.

The absolute hodgepodge occurs in

: the anti-establishment of the CUP and Arran participated on Thursday in a march against the measures taken by the Government in which there were riots.

On Friday, it was Vox who sponsored the rally in

, seeking empathy with the unemployed and / or unemployed merchants and hoteliers forced to close.

The call, as had happened on Monday with antagonistic animators, derived in the same way: burning of containers and races with bicycles and scooters stolen from a sports products establishment.

The destruction and criminal actions were attributed to far-right groups, but other radical groups were also identified, including menas (unaccompanied immigrant minors).

On Saturday, a protest against evictions took over in the streets of Barcelona.

It also degenerated into altercations.

The

detected "groups of the same profile" as the two previous days.

Although Vox has been the most insistent party in encouraging a response to the government in the street, the ideology of the insurgents is much more varied, and it is one of the great unknowns that prevent drawing conclusions about whether any organization is pulling the strings.

In

, some thirty participants were arrested for the serious altercations on Saturday.

They were considered members of a small "neo-Nazi" group by the Police, although there are also six Maghrebis among those arrested,

, which would explain the plurality of profiles in the violent actions.

In Santander, half of the detainees were of foreign origin, but in Logroño they were all Spanish.

The hot spots of these protests also speak volumes about the complexity of the phenomenon.

There have been altercations in neighborhoods with a working-class tradition, such as Huelin, in Malaga, where one in three neighbors voted for the PSOE in the last elections.

The same occurs in the Alza neighborhood, in

, one of the few districts where Socialists and United We Can outperform the PNV, and which suffered container burns on Saturday.

Also unique is the case of

, the epicenter in 2014 of neighborhood protests against the construction of a parking lot in the neighborhood, and now the nucleus of Burgos denial of the Government's restrictions.

In this way, it is almost impossible to relate ideological patterns to the protests as it did months ago in two clear examples in Madrid:

and

.

It is, therefore, about movements in peripheral neighborhoods, but also about collapses in large arteries.

The riots in Madrid started from Gran Vía and Plaza de España, but turned towards

, while in Barcelona the majority were registered in the vicinity of the Vía Layetana.

In the town of Igualada, an hour's drive from the central avenue, four individuals burned 17 containers and a vehicle, with no apparent connection between the acts.

In other provincial capitals such as

,

or

the groups also acted in the center of the cities.

Barely match patterns between protesters to try to draw a coordination.

The youth of the agitators stands out: only one of the 33 arrested in Madrid is over 30 years of age.

In

, the seven arrested range between 15 and 24 years.

The videos of the looting in

and the Riojan capital confirm the characteristic.

In

, one of the six detainees does not exceed 15 years, and one of the two arrested in

is also a minor, like half of those reduced in Igualada.

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