Balza Strikes Again

EITb published a note regarding the violent repression unleashed by the Ertzaintza against pro-amnesty demonstrators yesterday in Donostia. Sadly, EITb shows that is is a mouth piece for the Lakua government in the very first paragraph.

Here you have the note:

Donostia - San Sebastian

Nine arrested and several injured at pro-amnesty demonstration

09/09/207

Five police agents were treated for bruises and one of them had a wound on his neck. Furthermore, three more people where injured as Police charged against demonstrators, one of them was hit by a rubber ball on his head.

Basque Police charged against demonstrators who were trying to march in favour of prisoners in a banned protest called by the Pro Amnesty Movement at the Boulevard of Donostia-San Sebastian.

Serious incidents were registered in the coastal city for several hours. Basque Police arrested nine people, among them the spokesman for the association in favour of prisoners' rights Askatasuna (Freedom), Juan Mari Olano. The nine are charged with public disorder and participation in an illegal demonstration.

As Interior Department sources confirmed, five police agents were treated for bruises and one of them had a wound on his neck. Furthermore, three more people where injured as Police charged against demonstrators, one of them was hit by a rubber ball on his head. Hospital Donostia sources confirmed their urgencies services had treated six people, and two of them are still in hospital, one of them the mosts eriously injured police agent.

Demonstrators tried to start the protest at 1:45pm, and Basque Police agents told the organisers the march was banned, moment when the charge started.

Double ban

The Interior Department of the Basque Government had banned the demonstration twice arguing "reasons linked with public order." The Department sent around 200 police agents to the coastal city to control the situation.

Leftwing nationalism showed its "complete rejection of Basque Police's brutal performance" and charged Basque Nationalist Party's Josu Jon Imaz and Interior councillor Javier Balza of doing the "dirty job" for Madrid.

Yes indeed, Imaz and Balza are to soulless neanderthals all to happy to smash as many Basque skulls as Madrid demand, too bad the media that is supposed to pinpoint the faulty behavior of individuals like Javier Balza do little or nothing.

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