Spain: Holy Week Procession Disrupted by 5 North Africans

Hat tip Vlad Tepes.

On Sunday, in the Spanish municipality of El Vendrell (Tarragona, Catalonia), a Plam Sunday procession was violently disrupted by five young men described as Moroccans. Police responded and were attacked by the youths. Two were arrested and three escaped. The two detainees are described as being of Moroccan nationality.

The below article from El Caso (Catalonia) is translated by Fousesquwk. The article also contains a video taken by cell phone which has been going around the internet. Much of the audio is of the bystanders making exclamations, like, “disgrace”,”unbelievable” etc, but much of it is unintelligible. It speaks for itself.

 https://elcaso.elnacional.cat/es/noticias/cinco-jovenes-reventar-procesion-domingo-ramos-vendrell-video_62671_102.html

Barcelona April 11, 2022

Five young men try to break up the Palm Sunday procession in El Vendrell: Video

Serious incidents during the Palm Sunday procession this Sunday in El Vendrell, in Baix Penedes (Tarragona). According to what police sources explained, as they were passing a few minutes past 7:30 in the evening, an officer who was doing guard duties for the procession, which was crossing through the center of the city, observed how a group of 5 Maghrebians (N. Africans) were creating insecurity in the area, bothering the people who were awaiting the passing of the procession and also provoking disturbances. The young men were on Angel Guimera Street and heading toward Nova Square, right in the path of the religious affair.

The local police officer alerted the station and several officers headed to the location to try and remove the youths from the situation. Far from listening to the police, the young men confronted the police, pushing and attacking the officers, who had to use their personal defenses to try and repel the attack, as can be seen in the images of this video, which El Caso received.

Two arrested for attacking police

Three of the youths were able to escape the scene, and two were arrested by El Vendrell police officers. According to police sources in the capital of Baix Penedes, the two detainees are 24 years old and of Moroccan nationality. They are accused of an alleged crime of attacking police officers. An investigation has been opened to try and identify the other three young men who participated with the group with the intention of breaking up the El Vendrell Palm Sunday procession. The officers were applauded when they were able to take the two violent young men away. 

Neighbors in the municipality have explained that it is not the first time that these young men have created insecurity in the center of the municipality. Though they cannot be connected formally, sources of the Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, have explained that the two detainees are related to the young men arrested a few weeks ago for participating in violent fights in El Vendrell. In these confrontations, which occur during the evenings, one of them lost his sight and an eye as a result of the attacks with machetes and rocks.

Holy Week in El Vendrell

The religious events of Holy Week in El Vendrell began this Sunday at 12 noon in Francesc Macia Square, where the blessing of the palms and mass was conducted. In the afternoon, around 4:30, the Procession of Brotherhood began, which brought together the participation of some 300 people and two musical bands. In spite of the disturbances, the event was able to conclude at the church around 9:30.

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Fousesquawk comment: Without trying to blame every single North African, Moroccan, or Muslim immigrant in Europe for this outrage, it is a fact that in virtually every Western European country that has admitted massive numbers of young, male Muslim migrants, these attacks against Christianity are becoming commonplace. Churches are being desecrated, services are being disrupted, and now Easter processions are disrupted. Why does this happen and happen with regularity? It happens for the same that in Muslim-majority countries, Christians and other religious minorities are routinely persecuted. It is because Islam does not respect other religions. This hatred of Christianity, Judaism, and virtually any other religion that is not Islam is preached not only in mosques in Muslim countries but in Western mosques as well.

I would never advocate that a Muslim religious event be disrupted, but we need to keep these things in mind when we hear questionable Muslim “leaders” like CAIR, for example, complain about “Islamophobia”.