Overview

• Prosecutors in Murcia charged two individuals for facilitating the flight and evidence destruction of the alleged assailant in Domingo’s beating
• The Ertzaintza apprehended the third suspect in Rentería and handed him over to the Guardia Civil, completing the arrests of those accused of directly assaulting the 68-year-old
• Authorities have also detained seven others on hate crime, public disorder and property damage charges related to the anti-immigrant unrest
• More than 100 Guardia Civil, Policía Local and Ertzaintza officers remain deployed in Torre Pacheco as the Fiscalía General del Estado pursues its official hate crime probe
• Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez condemned the violence as incompatible with democracy, while opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo accused the government of a chaotic security response