Overview

• A San Javier court granted provisional release to two alleged accomplices under conditions including travel bans and mandatory check-ins while remanding the primary suspect in pretrial custody
• The Prosecutor’s Office has opened a hate-crime investigation into José Ángel Antelo, Vox’s Murcia leader, over inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric linked to the unrest
• Murcia regional president Fernando López Miras urged the Interior Ministry to deploy additional police to Torre Pacheco to halt nightly disturbances and prevent the town from becoming a “battlefield”
• Government spokesperson Pilar Alegría accused Vox of stoking anti-immigrant hatred with the “complicit silence” of the Partido Popular after a Council of Ministers meeting
• In Madrid’s suburbs, Alcalá de Henares mayor Judith Piquet and Pozuelo de Alarcón mayor Paloma Tejero demanded the immediate closure of migrant reception centres and condemned the central government’s lack of consultation over new transfers