Protective protests and against the participation of the Israel Premier Tech team in the return are still happening during the course, to the point of having managed to “hack” the radio station of the race, broadcasting phrases and claiming songs. In addition, cyclists Javier Romo (Spain) and Edward Planckaert (Belgium) accidentally fall to the ground when stumbleding with a protester
The Proportian activists hacked the Radio Vuelta station in some sections of the stage last Saturday between Aviles and La Farrapona, interrupting the usual messages of the competition and casting slogans and even claiming songs. “The hacking of a station is a simple thing, it is nothing strange. A radio amateur with a little skill can intervene a frequency. Yesterday was something purely anecdotal, which does not entail any danger,” says sources of safety of the return.
The organization of the Vuelta has taken measures so that these facts are not repeated in the day that is played between vegadeo and monforte of Lemos. There will be mobilizations until Madrid, the proportive demonstrations has been happening at the exits, arrivals and various points of the route in each of the stages of the Vuelta. The provision of the provision of the Civil Guard Mobility and Road Safety Unit, which has a deployment of 132 agents in the test, is “that they continue to Madrid.” For David Rebate, Lieutenant of the UMSV of the Civil Guard, the events that have been happening since the entrance of the Vuelta in Spain on August 27 “is nothing new.”
Also this Saturday, a propalestine protester, hidden in one of the sketches around the road, ran to the passage of the cyclists, when he stumbled upon a ditch and fell from Bruces. That unexpected movement, in addition to the appearance of a policeman to stop him, made Javier Romo scared and also ended on the ground, and with him the Belgian Edward Planckaert, Jordi Quixano reports. The Spanish cyclist protested, exceeded by the situation, while, 70 meters later, the police arrested 10 protesters who surely had the same intention.
