Madrid municipal police severely harassed militants IU, the PCE and The complaint UJCE behavior Madrid municipal police on the night of May 1 held, insulted and seized the political material three activists and candidates, forcing one of them to strip in public, with the sole intention to humiliate, intimidate and impede political activity.
affected militants affiliated to the Communist Youth (UJCE) and PCE, and also candidates in two municipalities of Madrid, Santos Navalafuente the Humosa and have proceeded to report the facts before the courts during the last night.
The incident occurred while the militants placed, in the district of Ciudad Lineal, information boards UI applications to the City and Madrid, theoretical exercise their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and participation full political election campaign.
Then a municipal police patrol approached them, held them and asked for identification. At all times emphasized the extremely aggressive and abusive behavior of one agent, who threatened to arrest, without giving a reason.
political motivations of the agent were revealed from the start when he insulted the militants, saying they were a "piggy", a name commonly used by neo-Nazis to refer to left-wing militants, and said he was working and not "doing the jerk" as the militants.
The agent was primed especially with one of the militants, who frisked them naked in the streets, pulling down his trousers and pants, again without explaining the reason and no intention of looking for anything in particular, with the sole purpose to humiliate and intimidate the young candidate .
The officer inspected the documentation of the militant, including cards and union political affiliation and personal documents. Documents also IU, PCE and UJCE, while contempt was pulling everything down. In this case, at no time did not specify what he was looking beyond to intimidate activists. The political motivation of his attitude was evidenced again when, pointing to the land policy documents, the agent approached the young candidate asking him to pick up "your garbage."
The aggressive attitude of the staff surprised even his partner, but consented to the conduct of his companion, "explained" to the militants that the other agent "had been a bad day."
Finally the agent seized the political material without explaining why. The militants were not answered when, by rights, they asked where they could collect the material.
The UJCE (Union of Communist Youth of Spain) condemned this new case intimidation and harassment of its members and reiterate their clear desire to continue with its work on raising awareness and mobilizing the youth class and student and worker, and made a call to denounce the escalating campaign of criminalization and repression against organizations and the militants of the political and social left.
