A total of 16 people have been arrested up to nine o’clock at night due to various public order incidents recorded in Agurain, Zamudio, Donostia/San Sebastián, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Portugalete and Bilbao during the day of a general strike called this Wednesday in Euskadi.
In addition, proceedings have been initiated in the capacity of those under investigation for three men in Errenteria and more than 200 people have been identified in different police interventions. Seven officers have had to be evacuated to medical centers due to injuries of different severity resulting from the throwing of objects and physical assaults.
As the Basque Department of Security has stated, in the incidents recorded in Portugalete shortly before 10:00 a.m., five people were arrested.
In Vitoria-Gasteiz, a 24-year-old man was also arrested for public disorder, adding to the other two, aged 29 and 31, who had been detained earlier.
The rest of those arrested are two men, aged 31 and 52, intercepted this morning in Agurain and Zamudio, respectively, as well as a 32-year-old woman detained in Donostia/San Sebastián. Already in the afternoon, in Bilbao, two men and a woman, around 40 years old, were arrested.
So far, proceedings have been opened in the capacity of those under investigation for an alleged offense of public disorder for three men aged 27, 35 and 49. The 35-year-old has a previous detention recorded by the Ertzaintza, while the 49-year-old had already been investigated on another occasion.
Shortly before seven in the evening, two people were assaulted as a demonstration passed in front of the PP headquarters in Barakaldo.
After half past seven in the evening, an electrical sabotage occurred affecting the public lighting of Bilbao’s Casco Viejo, which left the Plaza de Santiago and the streets Somera, Telleria, Artecalle, Belostikale and Carnicería Vieja without power.
More than 200 people have been identified in numerous episodes recorded in different operations, in which damage was caused to shops and to urban street furniture, the burning of dumpsters, and cutoffs using barricades on various roads and entrances to businesses and industrial estates.
Throughout the day, 2,200 members of the Ertzaintza have been deployed, several of whom have suffered the impact of various objects and some have been physically assaulted. In total, seven officers have been injured and have had to be taken to medical centers.