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WATCH: Roma And African Migrants Riot On Christmas Day


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by LIAM DEACON
26 Dec 2015

Members of the Roma community and African migrants fought a running battle on the streets of a small Spanish town on Christmas Day, following the murder of a Guinean man. Police were attacked, petrol bombs thrown and roads blocked.

“Garbage bins are being burned, cars have been burned, windows have been shattered,” said Manolo Garcia, a local city councilor describing the scenes on radio news stationCadena Ser.



The disturbances, in the small town of Roquetas del Mar in the province of Almeria, began after police found the body of a murdered 41-year-old Guinean migrant in the street in the early hours of Friday, Christmas eve.

Police said they suspected the was victim had been stabbed following a dispute over a traffic accident, local media reported.
Sources close to central government told Spanish news site El Pais that the assailants are thought to be Roma. Protests held by the African migrants broke out into violence when they reached the primarily Roma neighbourhood of Cortijos de Marin later that night.

The newspaper El Ideal reported in the early hours of this morning that petrol bombs had been throw, police attacked and roads blocked off. A reporter wrote:

“At present the situation is very critical, as noted by witnesses who are in the area, who have pointed out that the deceased friends and countrymen have attacked several riot police, thrown Molotov cocktails at official vehicles and have even mounted barricades in the area Cortijos de Marin”.

Around 30-40 people are thought to have taken part in the unrest, which police have since brought under control, the assistant deputy of the national government in Almeria, Andres Garcia Lopez, told Cadena Ser radio.

“At this moment the situation is back to normal,” he said, confirming that no one had been injured in the riot and no arrests were made.

Following the riot, police have maintained a heavy presence in the Cortijos de Marin neighbourhood in an attempt to prevent further clashes between Roma and African migrants.

The town has a large migrant population, most of whom work in the local farming industry in the many thousands of large greenhouses across the area. Unemployment stand at 31 per cent in the province, higher than national rate of 21 per cent.
There was a similar incident in Roquetas del Mar in 2008, when African migrants set fire to cars and houses and attacked police and firefighters with stones after a 28-year-old Senegalese man was stabbed to death.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015...christmas-day/

Immigrant death sparks riot in Spanish beach city

Police suspect the man was stabbed following a dispute over a traffic accident

Madrid: African migrants rioted in a southern Spanish beach city on Friday, setting fire to garbage bins and cars, after a man from Guinea-Bissau was stabbed to death, local officials said.

Manolo Garcia, a city councillor in Roquetas del Mar in the province of Almeria, said the killing of the 41-year-old man in the city led to protests which descended into violence in the working class neighbourhood of Cortijos de Marin.

“Garbage bins are being burnt, cars have been burnt, windows have been shattered,” he told radio news station Cadena Ser.

Local online newspaper Ideal published a photo of a garbage container engulfed in flames in the middle of a street near a pharmacy as well as a video of man pushing a garbage container onto a burning car.

Police found the body of the man from Guinea-Bissau on a street in Roquetas del Mar in the early hours of Friday. Police suspect the man was stabbed following a dispute over a traffic accident, local media reported.

About 30-40 people had taken part in the unrest but police have since brought the situation under control, the assistant deputy of the national government in Almeria, Andres Garcia Lopez, told Cadena Ser.

“At this moment the situation is back to normal,” he said.

No arrests

Police would remain at the scene throughout the night and for the next few days to prevent any more unrest, he added.

No one was injured in the riot and no arrests were made, Lopez said.

The province of Almeria is home to a sea of plastic greenhouses that employ many migrants as vegetable and fruit labourers.

It also relies on tourism but the jobless rate in the province stand at 31 per cent, much higher than the already high national rate of 21 per cent.

In 2008 African migrants in Roquetas del Mar set fire to cars and houses, and attacked police and firefighters with stones, after a 28-year-old Senegalese man was stabbed to death.

Immigrant death sparks riot in Spanish beach city | GulfNews.com