Illa promises to go to the end to find out "who is behind" the Barcelona riots

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has promised to go to the end to "know who is behind" the serious riots in Barcelona and has warned that it will be "investigated" thoroughly. "We will know who organized it because we are investigating it, and everyone who participated in the organization will be identified, brought to justice and will pay a price," he warned at a PSC event in Tarragona.

A message that he repeated in Catalan and Spanish - "we will end up knowing who is behind it," he reiterated - about the origin of the calls spread on social networks, especially through Tik Tok, to recruit young people in the center of Barcelona, ​​a concentration that ended with serious looting, chaos, altercations and attacks on the police.

"Those of us who defend coexistence do not dedicate ourselves to breaking shop windows, we do not dedicate ourselves to damaging public spaces. And those of us who are democrats do not cover our faces when we walk down the street," Illa concluded.

The Mossos are investigating the origin of the call to recruit young people and the first indications do not rule out that it could be external interference.

The balance of the serious disturbances on October 24 is 128 arrested (56% minors and only two with a record of public disorder), 450 identified, with "very young" 14-year-old boys among those arrested, 23 businesses looted and 14 agents injured.

For her part, the chief commissioner of the Catalan police, Sílvia Catà, has assured that the origin is unknown and that an investigation is underway to determine what happened. In Catalunya Ràdio he explained that, in collaboration with other European police forces, work is already being done to "monitor" the dissemination of the call, which mainly took flight through TikTok, a network widely used by minors.

The call came from Blocus, an anonymous group that called to demonstrate not only in Barcelona, but also in other large cities in Spain, including Madrid, for the "quality of the institute", a motto inspired by the "Lycées Indignés" movement that has led the protests in France for weeks.

Meanwhile, the opposition's criticism of the management of Illa's Government is growing and PP, Vox and Junts demand more explanations.

Junts has announced that it will request the appearance in Parliament of the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, to give explanations for the altercations, events that the party's candidate for 29-N, Míriam Nogueras, has condemned: "This is not France nor do we want it to be." "Catalonia cannot be a country where some raise the blinds every morning and others break them at night: This is not France nor do we want it to be," the neo-convergent has added.

The spokesperson for the Catalan PP, Lorena Roldán, has also demanded the urgent appearance of the Minister of the Interior due to her "lack of foresight in the face of a call that was spread through social networks and ended in destruction and looting of businesses and what measures are going to be adopted." "It cannot be said that these are quite inexplicable dynamics, because the events are extremely serious, too similar to what has happened in France in recent days," Roldán added.