The Police monitor radical groups after two weeks of protests in Sol for housing

The National Police keeps groups with a radical profile under surveillance around the encampment in Madrid's Puerta del Sol, which this Saturday marks two weeks of peaceful protests after the eviction of Maricarmen, which was followed by the Government's failed attempt to approve its decrees on housing and the call for elections on November 29.

The passing of the days has relegated the prominence in Sol of the initial organizers of the camp, which began on Saturday, September 26 with a majority of members of the Tenants' Union, in favor now of an a priori more radical profile around the Socialist Youth Coordinator (CJS), according to police sources.

The day of greatest tension was Saturday, October 3, due to the presence near Sol of members of the National Nucleus. The Police managed to bag this far-right group and arrested three of its sympathizers after being involved in a clash with other members of the CJS who called to 'defend' the camp.

The police sources consulted have indicated that the greatest concern currently lies in the repetition of this type of clashes between ideologically antagonistic groups, especially if the presence of more radical profiles of the anti-capitalist movement becomes more acute.

However, they remember that there have been no serious disturbances or altercations within Sol after two weeks since a camping trip began, which, in addition, has been endorsed by the TSJ of Madrid in response to the request of the Community and the Madrid City Council for the Government Delegation to order its eviction.

Protest in front of Congress

During this time, in fact, protests have been taking place with their epicenter in Puerta del Sol, as occurred with the march to the home where Maricarmen was evicted on Sainz de Baranda Street, as a sign of mourning for the 87-year-old woman who died in a hospital.

On Friday, October 2, the campers marched peacefully and without incident to the outskirts of the Congress of Deputies, coinciding with the vote on the housing decrees rejected by the votes of PP, Vox and Junts, which led to the calling of elections the following Monday.

It was that day, in front of the fences deployed by the Police in the San Jerónimo race, when the CJS began to take center stage by displaying a banner with the motto "PSOE and Sumar, responsible for our misery."

The anti-capitalist ultra-left group, the sources consulted point out, shares a strategy with other Basque organizations such as GKS and are very critical of the parties of the traditional parliamentary left. There are also parallels with Samidoun and Extinction Rebellion, 'common' in protests against NATO or in favor of Palestine.

Concern of police unions

The police unions have once again emphasized the professionalism of the UIP 'riot police', despite the fact that their actions were questioned in devices such as the eviction of Maricarmen, when they accessed her home in compliance with a court order despite the protest from the neighbors and the Tenants' Union. In this sense, they remember that the UIP comes from a situation of "extraordinary" crisis in Ceuta with the massive entry of migrants at the end of July, to which is now added the mobilizations for housing, the call for a general strike or the campaign and holding of general elections on November 29.

"We are seeing that tension increases in the mobilizations and how certain opposing groups seek confrontation. We cannot allow the police to be the ones who end up assuming the consequences of insufficient planning," they have stated from the SUP.