Overview

• Nine suspects remain in custody facing charges from the initial stabbing of a 68-year-old resident to hate crimes and public disorder, while two more were arrested for aiding the attacker’s escape and destroying evidence.
• A specialist prosecutor in Cartagena has opened a formal investigation into the violence as a suspected hate crime in coordination with the Guardia Civil and the Fiscalía General del Estado.
• More than 100 agents from the Guardia Civil and local police have been deployed across Torre Pacheco to contain extremist mobilizations and deter further “migrant hunts.”
• PSOE and Podemos blame Vox for stoking xenophobic unrest through online calls for “cacerías de inmigrantes,” and Vox rejects these allegations, accusing the government of infiltrating agitators.
• Moroccan nationalist group Comité para la Liberación de Ceuta y Melilla reemerged on the 23rd Perejil anniversary to demand sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, exacerbating bilateral tensions.