A member of an information picket from CCOO was arrested this Wednesday in Derio (Vizcaya) when distributing leaflets to drivers passing through the area.
As a spokesperson for the trade union headquarters explained to Europa Press, shortly after seven in the morning a group of around a hundred people was at a roundabout in the Biscayan municipality distributing information sheets to vehicles circulating through the area. Nearby, about five vans and several patrols of the Ertzaintza remained deployed.
At a certain point, a scuffle occurred between several Ertzaintza officers and one of the picket participants, who had approached a passenger car to hand him an information sheet. His driver, according to what they report, arrived to simulate that he was stepping on the accelerator.
According to the same sources, the Ertzaintza then proceeded to put handcuffs on him, restrain him, and take him into the police van, where he remained “a long time.” Later, he was taken to the Cruces hospital, where he was still admitted past 8:30 a.m. in the capacity of a detainee. Subsequently, his transfer to the Sarriko police station is planned, to which the union’s lawyers have already gone.