Category: Spain

On 4th of July 2022, a demonstration against the rise of electricity costs and power cuts took place in Seville, Spain. The march had been organised by the neighboorhood assemblies Barrios Hartos and Plataforma Vecinal Cerro-Amate as a protest against the energetical poverty the working class neighboorhoods of Seville have always been suffering and that has become even worse during the last months, when power cuts have become more and more frequent du to the rising prices. However, the march ended in an act of brutal police repression against a well-known comrade of the organising collectives. He was thrown to the ground by police officers who then detained him by sitting on his head and did not refrain from their violent attitude although he was screaming with pain. Meanwhile, the rest of police officers were intimidating the outraged mass of protestors, threatening them with their batons. The comrade was finally arrested and taken to the police station, where he had to spend the night before being taken to court the next morning. He is being accused of “resistance and gross disobedience”.