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The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has condemned the disturbances of "extreme violence" that have occurred this Wednesday night and has warned the "gang of undesirables" that caused numerous damages that "will assume the payment of the corresponding damages they have caused in the city. "

The Madrid councilor has indicated that the Madrid City Council will take stock of the damages caused, after an unauthorized demonstration in support of the rapper Pablo Hasél, and "we will exercise the corresponding judicial options to claim all those damages from the identifiable people who have caused them originated ".

During an interview on Telemadrid collected by Servimedia, Almeida insisted that the

Madrid City Council

"is not going to sit idly by, nor is it going to allow those who have participated in these incidents not to assume the payment of the corresponding damages that have caused in the city. "

Therefore, he explained that they will exercise the appropriate legal and claim actions, although he remarked that "there is still an assessment of the damage, but we have all seen urban furniture, such as benches, papers, sewers and cobblestones, which have been torn away. for this gang of undesirables that has performed tonight in the city of

Madrid

".

Faced with this situation, the councilor has insisted that the people of Madrid "have the peace of mind that we are going to adopt all the actions so that whoever has done it, pays it" and added that there is no doubt that his City Council "has no complacency no tolerance. "

For this reason, he stressed that "whoever does it, pays it in the city of Madrid and those who have done it, will pay it."

"Anti-establishment radicals of the extreme left"

Asked about the youth of the participants in these violent and vandalism acts, the mayor of the capital has linked them to "radical anti-system of the extreme left" and has lamented that, for this ideology, these young people "are their breeding ground."

In this sense, he has criticized "the manipulation of young people and the radicalization that is intended of them, which in the end leads to behaviors of this type".

The councilor has assured that the whole of Spanish society and youth does not identify with this type of behavior, but has stressed that "we must take special care in the manipulation that, through these radical anti-establishment and extreme left, produces in youth ".

Therefore, "for the better future of Madrid, Spain and society, it is not good to see these young people participate with this violence in this way, which is due to the management that is being done of them and the manipulation that leads them to this violence. "

The mayor has clarified: "I do not want to say that they are not responsible, because each one is responsible for their actions", but has denounced that "certain messages that are emitted from certain platforms and from certain political parties do not precisely help young people to behave as they should ".

"Not a single word of encouragement"

The mayor of Madrid has celebrated that if the disturbances that occurred in the center of the capital were not worse, it was because of the "extraordinary professionalism" of the

State Security Forces and Bodies

, with the

National Police

, which has had the support of Riot Units of the

Municipal Police

, to which he thanked that "with their effort and work, they avoided disturbances that could have been greater."

In this sense, Almeida has commented that, in addition to the professionalism of the State Security Forces and Bodies, "the important thing is that from the institutions and political forces we give a unanimous response to this brutal violence, we give a response in which there is not the slightest doubt about our commitment to maintaining public order, security and coexistence ".

At this point, he has demanded that "all of us who have responsibilities do not give a single word of encouragement, and that unfortunately has not happened, but, on the contrary, let's say that we are utterly rejected and disgusted by the actions of these radicals and these anti-system in the city of Madrid ".

"It is important to convey that image, because in Madrid there is no place in any way attitudes and behaviors like those we have seen in the capital and which have caused extreme violence, which thanks to the professionalism of the agents has prevented them from being greater ", has asserted the councilor.

Finally, he reported that in the

Plenary of the City Council

of the capital that will be held next Tuesday they will take a proposal to reject the violence that has occurred in the city of Madrid, which "I am sure will have the consensus of all municipal groups ".

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