The general secretary of CC.OO. Madrid, Paloma López, has advanced that the union will file a criminal complaint as a result of the police charges and the detention of a worker during an information picket at Mercamadrid in connection with the general strike of this 11 November.
She explained this to the media from the depots of the Empresa Municipal de Transportes (EMT), where she noted that they have had “problems with the police” in the distribution platform because they are not “allowing the performance of the information role” to the workers.
As she recounted, “At Mercamadrid they have absolutely prohibited us from getting close so that we can inform why we are striking. We had a confrontation because they charged without rhyme or reason and are, they threw pepper spray at us,” the union leader reproached.
In her view, the actions of the National Police are focusing on “putting every obstacle” in the way of union work and she has estimated the number of people injured at 15 due to “an abusive, disproportionate” use of force by the agents.
She denounced that “They hit her (a colleague) with batons in the ribs, in the back... Failure to comply with the criteria of the Police itself,” while insisting that the picket on which the intervention took place was “absolutely peaceful, absolutely calm and there was no kind of justification.”
Next, she emphasized that there is a detained worker who “was doing nothing” and “they simply must not have liked how he looked at it, and they took him.”
Lastly, she considered “very worrying” that “There is an additional element that we found very worrying and it is that the police do not go identified; they do not carry the badge numbers. Logically we are going to file a criminal complaint and this will not be left in this situation,” she concluded.