The Government denies "ethnic motives" in the operation against Blocus of the Mossos d'Esquadra, with 10 detainees and 2,300 identifications

The balance of the police operation in Catalonia due to Blocus calls has ended with 10 detainees and 2,264 identifications.

This was detailed here this morning by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security of the Generalitat, Núria Parlon, who has shown her "concern" about the age of some of the young people identified by the Police because "they were not even 12 years old." Of the total identifications, 1,800 were made by the Mossos d'Esquadra and 464 by the Urban Police.

In an interview on the Catalunya Ràdio program El suplement, the councilor pointed out that, in addition to the three arrests in Barcelona, ​​there were another seven, in the rest of Catalonia, of "young people who committed some act of vandalism linked to Blocus." Parlon added that there were 181 complaints about the seizure of "bladed weapons" or harmful objects, such as "rocks or spray."

The person in charge of the Interior portfolio of the PSC Government has rejected the accusations that there was a filtering with a "racial profile" by the agents when making the identifications: "After what happened last week in Barcelona, ​​can anyone sincerely propose that identifications were made for ethnic reasons?"

Parlon has pointed out that the profiles selected by the Catalan Police and the Urban Guard responded to young people with clothing like that indicated in the Blocus messages on the messaging channels, such as black clothing and hoods: "It was a certain profile, minors and with a certain clothing."

The CUP has demanded explanations from the Department of the Interior for "the indiscriminate identifications of young people, also due to racial profiling" this Saturday, mainly in Barcelona, ​​in the police force deployed by the Blocus call, with more than 500 agents on the streets.