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Grave incidents in Fuencarral pickets

Lenz (trans. by Sasha) | 20.06.2002 14:45

Police attack Fuencarral pickets; many injured, detained without medical care.

At the picket that appeared at dawn in las cocheras in Fuencarral appeared flags from ugt, cnt and cgt
(the people of these last unions are especially active and combative). The 300 people gathered there
were able to block the exit of buses for more than an hour, watched the whole time by about a hundred
national and municipal police. At a prearranged moment a group did a sit-in action in front of one of the buses. This produced a brutal charge by the police that has resulted in more than 20 wounded and various detained. An injured CGT activist was cruelly ignored by the people from Samur who were present. When another member of the picket, a health care professional, approached the police demanding medical attention for the wounded, the response was that "the police agent who arrested the injured has medical training." A denial of medical help that violates fundamental rights. The same police who denounced the wounded CGT activist followed them to the hospital in La Paz (another notorious illegality). A regional deputy of IU demanded to see the detained, without success. After being seen in La Paz, the CGT activist has been moved to the station of La Estrella (in the Moratalaz neighborhood, Madrid).

original article in spanish:
 http://acp.sindominio.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/20/1311215&mode=thread

Lenz (trans. by Sasha)