- The resignation of the Government, dissolution of Parliament and Monarchy, on grounds of lying to the People, bringing the country to total disaster.
- The abolition of the current Constitution, described as neo-fascist
- The initiation of a Constituent Process
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| Riot cops guarding the Spanish Congress |
The sequence of main events so far has been:
- Before 15:00 massive compulsory identification of people arriving to Madrid from all the State of Spain by police forces. Many buses' travelers have suffered whole body searches.
- Since 13:00 the first protesters have been in Plaza Neptuno
- 15:30 The Plural Left - United Left group of congresspeople vote to join the march
- 16:15 Police arrest a man who was denouncing a plain clothes agent at Plaza Neptuno
- 17:50 Ten minutes before the official rally hour, some 10,000 people were already surrounding the Spanish Congress
- 18:20 Another arrest: a middle aged man with a banner of the Andalusian Workers' Union (SAT)
- 18:30 At Plaza Neptuno with some 10,000 people already protesting there, a plain clothes policeman has threatened with the use of a rubber bullet pistol but was eventually dissuaded by the peaceful attitude of those present, while others cried "we don't have any fear!"
- 18:50 4000 people march through Seville
- 19:00 people at Plaza Neptuno try to dismantle the police walls. Police charges ensue for the next half hour. At least one protester injured, five arrested
Internet TV resources: internal Live Stream, direct reporting by Spanish public TV.
Udpate: since 21:00, 30 minutes before the authorization expired, police charged violently in Plaza Neptuno at the time most news programs could cover it directly.
A few activists reacted violently at some point also, it seems, but in general the protest was peaceful.
Many people have been arrested and/or badly beaten. One particularly unlucky victim of police violence has a backbone marrow lesion and could end up quadriplegic as result. Some other 13 injured people have been reported so far, one with a broken leg.
Video of one of the charges, where police attack random demonstrators and beats them badly (a common practice of the Spanish police since I have memory):
Plain clothes police have also been taking part in arrests and is plausible that they have been inciting the few violent incidents:
Udpate: since 21:00, 30 minutes before the authorization expired, police charged violently in Plaza Neptuno at the time most news programs could cover it directly.
A few activists reacted violently at some point also, it seems, but in general the protest was peaceful.
Many people have been arrested and/or badly beaten. One particularly unlucky victim of police violence has a backbone marrow lesion and could end up quadriplegic as result. Some other 13 injured people have been reported so far, one with a broken leg.
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| Plaza Neptuno was packed soon before police began charging |
Video of one of the charges, where police attack random demonstrators and beats them badly (a common practice of the Spanish police since I have memory):
Plain clothes police have also been taking part in arrests and is plausible that they have been inciting the few violent incidents:
At 23:00 Plaza Neptuno was still resisting against the police charges. Many people had moved to Puerta del Sol however.
The insider live channel was still emiting at 23:05, expecting more police charges at any moment.
Latest was that tomorrow there will be more mobilizations, I heard that at 19:00 at Neptuno again but there is a press conference in the morning.
La Haine[es] has a report including the repression in Atocha Station with some different photos and videos.
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| Seriously injured citizen |
Popular Assembly in Puerta del Sol ··> live stream. (Update at 23:46).
A brief but nice photo report can be found at Kasama:
Some in the livestreams say that there was "one million people".
Elsewhere in the State there were also protests, although often it is not well known how many people took place, etc. (Kaos again[es]):
- Barcelona hundreds or thousands gathered before the Catalan Parliament, which debated "general policy" and ended with President Mas calling snap elections for November on the issue of independence.
- Valencian Country: Alacant (Alicante) and Valencia
- Balearic Islands: Palma de Mallorca
- Andalusia: Almería, Málaga, Cordoba and Seville had mobilizations, the latter surrounding the Andalusian Parliament, which gathered some 5000 people and suffered no incidents
- Basque Country: Iruñea (Pamplona): "dozens", violently dissolved by police (Ateak Ireki[es])
- Galicia: Santiago
- Canary Islands: Tenerife
- Aragon: Zaragoza
- Extremadura: Badajoz
- La Rioja: Logroño
- Elsewhere in Europe solidarity actions were also called:
- Netherlands: Amsterdam
- Germany: Berlin and Düseldorf
- France: Paris
Not directly related but fueled by the same state of general discontent, tomorrow there are general strikes in the Basque Country and Galicia, coincident with the same call for Greece.
"Final" update (Sep 26):
After a violent charge Plaza Neptuno was finally evicted at 0:30. New protests have been called for today at 19:00 in Neptuno again.
The "final" body count is 64 injured (at least one severely so) and 24 arrested.
Source: La Haine[es].
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