He has unleashed a new confrontation between vendors and local authorities in). More than 300 National Police agents have participated them on Tuesday in an operation against a criminal organization dedicated to the sale and distribution that has ended with 19 detainees and clashes between the Manteros and the Police. 10 records have been carried out in homes and warehouses, real estate mostly in Salou but also in Reus and Les Borges of the Camp. While the records were being made, a group of manteros has launched stones as a protest that has ended with three agents of the Catalan police injured minor injured and damages have occurred both in police cars and in private vehicles that were parked nearby. The manteros have faced twice in less than fifteen days with the police for the.
On June 5, a very similar situation was lived in the capital of the Costa Dorada: dozens of vendors protested for a civil guard operation in two stores where the merchandise was stored -8,000 items valued in more than one million euros were seized in the black market. The manteros cut for hours the promenade to protest and also launched stones against the agents and bins and containers to hinder the passage in one of the streets with the most influx of tourists. The concentration was dissolved after a mediation in the same place of the facts with the Local Police and the Mossos; All parties reached an agreement to meet soon and explore possible alternatives.
For its part, assured that the Top Manta “It does not exist in Salou”: “There is no street sale on the walk or department stores with merchandise, although it is true that there are vendors that are put in other places that live in the municipality and can have accumulated products on their floors.” Although it avoids names, look the other way by ensuring that “the problem is in the neighboring town.” On previous occasions, the government team has directly pointed to Cambrils, ensuring that the manteros who sell there live in Salou.
The operations of recent days arrive in the middle of the tourist season. Granados says that “it is not the most appropriate time,” although he is also aware that police investigations do not understand dates and ask “the same forcefulness to act against other criminal acts.”
The problem comes from afar: in that case the trigger was when the Mossos entered their home to carry out a record. The Senegalese community went into mass to protest, first concentrating on a place and facing the agents: urban furniture and stones were thrown, and there were 20 minor injured. Hours later, the protesters moved to the train track area, where they cut the circulation for hours. There are many localities of the coast of Catalonia affected by the Top Manta: Cambrils and also Roses, on the Costa Brava, which has chosen to install concrete blocks – those known as New Jersey – on the ride to avoid the deployment of merchandise.
