Albiol asks to "act with all the forcefulness that the law allows" after the riots in Barcelona

The mayor of Badalona and PP candidate for Barcelona in the general elections, Xavier Garcia Albiol, has asked to "act with all the forcefulness that the law allows", after the riots on Saturday in the center of Barcelona.

"I condemn with the utmost force the riots that are taking place in Barcelona. The violence and vandalism are intolerable and cannot go unpunished," he stressed in a note in 'X'.

Albiol has shown his support for merchants, neighbors and the Mossos d'Esquadra, and has assured that "the security of citizens is not negotiable."

128 arrested in the Barcelona riots, 72 of them minors

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested 128 people, 72 of them minors, for the disturbances around Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona, following an unauthorized protest called on social networks.

As reported by the police in a statement this Sunday, October 25, of the total number of detainees, 122 are men and 6 are women, and two of the people detained had a record of public disorder.

In addition, 14 Mossos agents have been injured, 4 of them seriously.

During the afternoon and evening, firefighters carried out 33 interventions to put out fires in urban elements such as containers and trash cans, and 23 businesses were vandalized.