Nicanor Sen condemns the violence after the Zamora riots and considers that they only contribute to tarnishing the legitimate claims of the sector

• The government delegate in Castilla y León convenes a meeting of the four OPAs to which he has conveyed his concern about the recorded disturbances outside these organizations

March 5, 2024.- The government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, on Tuesday condemned the violent actions of some radical participants in the protests that are taking place in the Community "in the name of the countryside".

Sen has condemned with particular forcefulness the events that occurred on Monday night in the unreported court that was registered in the A-6 as it passed through the province of Zamora and that has left a balance of nine Civil Guard agents wounded in varying degrees as a result of a “violent reaction by some of the demonstrators”, as he has conveyed to the autonomous representatives of the OPAs -Asaja, COAG, UPA and UCCL - in a meeting held in the Government Delegation.

In this regard, Sen has stressed his support for the claims of farmers and ranchers, although he has described as unacceptable the attacks on agents and any action that compromises citizen security: “It is unacceptable that in an arbitrary way and without any security, cuts are being made on roads and highways causing not only harm to the citizens but putting at risk the lives of these people and their own, especially in hours of low visibility, which obliges the intervention of the Security Forces.” This was conveyed by the delegate to the representatives of the OPAs.

It has also warned that in recent days the Civil Guard has detected a greater number of incidents of burning of tyres and bales in the immediate vicinity of the tracks or on the roads themselves, with the consequent risk to the circulation.

For all these reasons, Sen has warned that the Government of Spain will act decisively in the face of any act of violence that puts at risk the physical integrity and life of people. The events of this Monday ended with two detainees and six people investigated.

Aside from these incidents, the government delegate in Castilla y León has stressed that the countryside has “unanimous social and institutional support in its claims”, and that these incidents provoked by a group of radicals are discrediting an entire sector. “These attitudes have no place in the right to demonstrate,” the delegate concluded.