The Save Europe Act movement has fizzled out and gathered about a hundred people in Barcelona, the first stop of its landing in Spain to demand the closure of borders and mass remigrations throughout Europe. A protest that coincides with the Ceuta migration crisis and its management under scrutiny.
The call had generated strong media interest due to the counter-demonstration convened by various entities and left-wing groups to show their rejection of the arrival of Save Europe Act. For this reason, the Mossos d’Esquadra have secured the Sant Jaume square – the epicenter of both gatherings, between the Generalitat and the Barcelona City Council – with a significant deployment to prevent clashes between the two opposing sides. More than twelve police vans and dozens of deployed officers formed a cordon that separated both groups with barriers and vehicles.
A few minutes before 7:00 p.m., several representatives and supporters of Save Europe Act arrived at the square, who unfolded a huge 20 by 20 meter (400 square meters) banner occupying a third of the square with the slogan “remigration saves Europe,” one of the pillars of the ultra movement’s discourse. Among those present was Vox deputy in the Parliament, Alberto Terrades.
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Precisely, the Barcelona City Council announced at the end of the event that it will report some of the messages heard at the Save Europe Act rally to the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office, considering them “racist.” Specifically, they consider that the banner displayed with the slogan “Remigration saves Europe” or slogans such as “It is not immigration, it is invasion” or “Christian Spain, not Muslim” – some of those heard this afternoon in Barcelona – may constitute a hate crime based on religion or belonging to a particular ethnicity, race, or nation.
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