Overview

• La Vuelta’s organizers announced on X that stage 21 was ended for security reasons and the podium ceremony was scrapped.
• Large pro‑Palestine crowds blocked parts of the central Madrid circuit, with police reporting two arrests and 22 officers injured as barriers were torn down and used to obstruct roads.
• Anticapitalistas and BDS coordinated the boycott call focused on the Israel‑Premier Tech team, and some activists celebrated the cancellation as a victory.
• PP leaders Isabel Díaz Ayuso, José Luis Martínez‑Almeida and Alberto Núñez Feijóo blamed Pedro Sánchez, while Sánchez earlier praised the mobilization and figures such as Yolanda Díaz and Ione Belarra backed the protests.
• The Madrid government delegation cited roughly 100,000 demonstrators and emphasized the largely peaceful character of the march, noting a deployment of about 1,500 officers for the capital’s stages.