Around 50 people have gathered this Saturday starting at 7:00 PM in the Sant Jaume square of Barcelona, responding to the call of the 'Save Europe Act' platform, with the aim of demanding a "mass deportation" of migrants.
The Mossos d'Esquadra have established a wide security device and have divided the square in two with a police cordon formed by vans and agents. This measure has been adopted because, since 6:00 PM, about 300 people from the Antifascist Coordinator of Barcelona were already concentrating in the same place, protesting against 'Save Europe Act'.
Concentration without incidents and antifascist counter-protest
The event of the platform, in which a "mass deportation" was demanded, has lasted until approximately 8:10 PM and has taken place without incidents. During all this time, the antifascist group has remained on the other side of the police cordon and has decided to dissolve when the attendees called by 'Save Europe Act' also did.
During the concentration, the organizers spread a large banner of about 400 square meters on the ground with the slogan 'Remigration Save Europe'. They pointed out that this same banner has already been displayed in recent months in other European cities, including Brussels and Utrecht, as part of the same initiative.
As they have explained, the action is part of a European-wide campaign that claims "European ethnic identity" through concentrations in different cities of the continent, and they have announced that next Saturday they plan to repeat the call in Madrid.
The coordinator of 'Save Europe Act' in Spain, Toni Estévez, has stated to the media that "demographic replacement is a proven fact."
He has maintained that the attendees consider themselves "much more than legitimized to demand the reversal of the mass immigration policies that are ending European civilization."
"What has happened in Ceuta is not immigration as usual, it is an invasion," he added.
Among those present was the Vox deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia Alberto Tarradas.
The gathered have demanded "social aid for nationals," defended the Spanish identity of Ceuta and Melilla, and some participants have chanted slogans against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and against RTVE.
Interior warning for possible hate crimes
The Ministry of Interior of the Generalitat had warned this Friday that it would transfer to the specialized section on hate crimes of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona those proclamations that could be constitutive of a hate crime during the concentration.
In this sense, the Govern recalled that the right to assembly and demonstration is a fundamental right, "but it is not absolute," and reiterated its commitment to respect for legality, the defense of equal treatment and non-discrimination, as well as the protection of the dignity of individuals and coexistence.