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Torre Pacheco Launches Permanent Security Plan After Xenophobic Violence

Bolstering patrols, stepping up surveillance, local authorities responded after two nights of far-right violence against migrants.

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Overview

  • A widely shared video purporting to show migrants attacking a local pensioner was verified as unrelated by RTVE and refuted by the victim, undermining the false claim.
  • The Guardia Civil deployed at least 75 special-unit officers from USECIC and GRS to contain hooded far-right groups that roamed the town armed with sticks.
  • Official figures record five migrants with minor injuries, eight arrests and numerous hate-crime and aggravated violence charges filed against suspected extremists.
  • Municipal authorities have reinforced video surveillance and intensified checks in high-risk neighborhoods under a newly announced permanent security plan as investigations and urgent security deliberations continue.
  • Residents of the agricultural town, where roughly 30% of inhabitants are foreign-born, remain anxious about further attacks amid a sharply polarized national debate over immigration.