Quiles’s visit to the Aragonese capital ended with five people arrested and eight National Police officers injured, one of them seriously. What began as a student protest against his presence at the university ended with police charges, bottles and other objects being thrown, and moments of intense tension between antifascist protesters and supporters of the broadcaster.
CLASHES AND RIOTS OVER QUILES’S VISIT
The afternoon began with hundreds of students and protesters gathered outside the Faculty of Law, where Quiles was scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. despite the University of Zaragoza’s opposition.
From 7:30 p.m. onward, clashes broke out between those opposed to his presence and groups of young people who had come to support him, some carrying Spanish flags. The National Police formed cordons to separate the two groups, but insults and the throwing of objects led to several police charges.
Faced with the police deployment and the impossibility of holding the event there, Quiles announced on social media that he was moving the gathering to Plaza de San Francisco. There, he climbed onto the kiosk behind the gas station, where he delivered a speech attacking Pedro Sánchez, the University of Zaragoza and the media. His visit to Zaragoza ended with him being escorted by police to the Porches del Audiorama, where he got into a car and left the city.
