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Eight Arrested Following Anti-Migrant Clashes in Torre-Pacheco

A major police deployment is investigating eight detainees over the pensioner’s beating along with calls for violence on social media.

TORRE PACHECO, SPAIN - JULY 13: Protesters clash with police on July 13, 2025 in Torre Pacheco, in the province of Murcia, Spain. The violent confrontation was sparked by the beating of an elderly resident the night before, allegedly by assailants who were of North African origin. The crowd that gathered tonight reportedly chased peopled they suspected to be immigrants and clashed with members of Spain's Guardia Civil. (Photo by Olmo Blanco/Getty Images)
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People play with a soccer ball as a police officer keeps watch, amid anti-migrant unrest following an attack on an elderly man by unknown assailants earlier in the week, in Torre Pacheco, Spain, July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura

Overview

  • Two of the eight arrested were linked to the assault on 68-year-old Domingo Tomás, while the other six face charges related to public disorder, hate crimes and property damage during the weekend unrest.
  • Security forces including the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets on Saturday night to disperse hooded far-right activists and North African migrants hurling bottles and fireworks in the town centre.
  • Investigators are probing the filmed street beating by alleged North African youths alongside social media posts that incited a planned “hunt for migrants.”
  • Murcia regional president Fernando López Miras and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska publicly condemned the violence and urged both residents and migrants to stay calm.
  • Torre-Pacheco’s roughly 40,000 residents include about one-third of foreign origin, many working in agriculture, a dynamic that has long shaped local migration tensions.