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Updated Sunday, March 31, 2024-9:09 p.m.

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Anti-racist organizations and groups have called this Sunday afternoon in the

Plaza de Lavapiés

for a protest against the actions of the National Police that went viral on social networks, demanding the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the end of "institutional racism."

Around 7:00 p.m., dozens of people approached the Madrid neighborhood carrying signs in which they displayed slogans such as 'Black lives do matter', 'Anti-racist Lavapiés', 'No to the criminalization of the neighborhood' and 'No more impunity'. ', among others.

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In addition, chants have been heard

against the actions of the National Police

('Enough of police violence') and demanding the

regularization of all migrants

('No human being is illegal'), while denouncing "institutional racism." and have asked for the repeal of what is known as the 'gag law'.

At one point during the rally, Podemos' Secretary of Anti-Racism, Serigne Mbayé, took the microphone to demand the dismissal or resignation of Marlaska,

"the worst Interior Minister in all of history";

a request that has later been supported by those attending the square. "The actions with white people are not the same as the actions with black people, enough is enough. All this is racism," he denounced during the protest, which was also attended by Podemos's Peace Secretary, Julio Rodríguez.

Investigation

The Government Delegation in Madrid maintains an open

investigation into the actions of the National Police

this Friday in Lavapiés, which has gone viral on social networks and for which

Sumar

has asked

the Ministry of the Interior for explanations.

"At this time an investigation is open in this regard. Proportionality is and should be a main component of police action," highlighted the Government delegate in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, on his social networks in response to a deputy of Más Madrid.

The spokespersons of this party in the City Council and the Assembly, Rita Maestre and Manuela Bergerot respectively, charged this Saturday against the "racism" that they see in the video of the police operation that has gone viral on social networks.

Precisely along with these images, Sumar's spokesperson in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, announced that his party will ask for explanations. "It captures what appears to be an attack in the Lavapiés neighborhood, by two agents of the National Police against two young men, where

cruelty can be perceived

, which does not seem to respond to a measured protocol of police action," he explains about the video. the initiative announced by Sumar.

According to sources from the Higher Police Headquarters, the National Police arrested two people this Friday in Lavapiés for

attacking authority

after both individuals had a

rather hostile attitude towards the agents, leaving one of them injured.