The former deputy of Can we at the Madrid Assembly Serigne Mbaye has been arrested this Thursday afternoon in the Usera-Villaverde district along with six other people for carrying out a confrontation with agents of the National Police. The purple formation has denounced the arrest in a “racist raid” and its general secretary, Ione Belarra, has demanded “the immediate release” of Mbaye.
The events occurred around 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of a supermarket located on Antonio López Street, when agents observed two people loitering suspiciously between some cars, according to police sources. Then, The agents have asked for his identification, although one of them has run away and screamed.. Faced with the screams, a group of people came out to meet them.
This group of men, including Mbaye, They have violently confronted the police to try to prevent the arrest. The agents, one of whom was slightly injured, have had to restrain them and arrest a total of seven people for alleged crimes of serious disobedience and resistance to authority.
“Enough of the harassmentEnough of police persecution for skin color and for defending social justice“, Belarra has pointed out on social networks. Also, Pablo Fernández, secretary of organization and spokesman for the party, has demanded his freedom: “Racist raids and police persecution because of skin color are unacceptable. “Marlaska is the person most responsible for this shame.”
From the purple party they denounce “the police racism that they suffer every day in our country millions of racialized people“, explain sources from the training. As published The Jump, One of its journalists, a resident of the area, has also been detained in the device made up of plainclothes agents and the National Police and which has been recorded by several neighbors.
Mbaye had reported persecution
Mbaye himself denounced a month ago the continuous harassment by the Police in the street: “I do not hesitate to denounce these practices, it is persecution, they are not going to stop and I am not going to remain silent.“. The former deputy of the Madrid Assembly also explained that he had reported it to the Madrid Government delegation, the Ombudsman and the Ministry of the Interior.
“It is no coincidence that the police stop me so frequently, It is a fact that clearly shows that they are coming for me,” he concluded. Born in Senegal, Serigne Mbaye has lived in Spain for years. He was spokesperson for the Manteros Union and a member of the Association of Undocumented People, he has been a deputy for Unidas Podemos in the Madrid Assembly and the party’s Secretary of Anti-Racism.
