Spain's PM calls for calm after violent anti-lockdown protests

Arrests and injuries in Madrid and looting in Logroño amid anger over Covid restrictions * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for an end to “the violent and irrational behaviour” of a minority of people after a weekend of angry demonstrations in cities around the country against the government’s decision to declare a six-month state of emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Thirty-two people were arrested and 12 injured in Madrid on Saturday night after a protest over the region’s midnight to 6am curfew turned violent, with rubbish bins set alight on the city’s Gran Vía and skirmishes with police. Continue reading...
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