UP demands explanations from the Interior for the police action on the scientists who protested before Congress

He defends that it was a peaceful mobilization to denounce inaction on climate change

MADRID, 16 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can has demanded explanations from the Ministry of the Interior for the actions of the National Police before the 14 activists of Scientific Rebellion after their protest on April 6 at the gates of Congress, whose purpose was to denounce the inaction of administrations against climate change .

As police sources explained yesterday, all were released after giving a statement at the police station in response to the report sent by the camera that collected the damage and the disruption to the normal functioning of the Courts caused by the throwing of water tinted with beet juice against the facade on last April 6.

After this controversy, the deputy of the confederal group and leader of En Comú Podem, Ismael Cortés, has registered several parliamentary questions addressed to the department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska, with a view to providing information on whether there were arrests and the charges against these activists.

In a tone critical of the police action, Cortés defends that these people, given that they exercised their right to "free assembly and demonstration, in a peaceful and symbolic protest", where they dyed the entrance to Congress red "signifying rejection due to the lack of of action of the Government against the climatic emergency".

In addition, it details that for their protest they used "fake biodegradable, easy-to-clean blood" that "was intended to simulate the state of climate emergency" in the country "after decades of climate inaction."

The 14 activists are attributed property damage after receiving a report that quantifies the damage caused above the crime threshold.

Alteration of the normal functioning of the Cortes is also attributed to them, by virtue of the Congress report that certifies that its development was interrupted.

The case is in the ordinary courts of Madrid and it will be the judicial authority that qualifies the facts and determines the measures to be adopted, according to police sources.

Yesterday, the parliamentary spokesman, Pablo Echenique, already requested "explanations, apologies and withdrawal of charges" on networks. "Was that full democracy? Is the Carrera de San Jerónimo in Madrid or in Pionyang?" He questioned himself.

Also the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, called this intervention "completely unacceptable". "These are scientists and social activists who with their actions are warning of the serious danger that climate change and the eco-social crisis pose to life. This 'institutional response' is totally out of place," he launched on Twitter.