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Despite the press conference a few days ago when the
city council of Burgos reiterated its willingness to continue the works of the boulevard that led to five consecutive days of intense protest, during his last public
appearance Javier Lacalle announced the suspension of
the construction work for a period of 15 to 20 days.
However, the continuous presence of riot cops that befell the district make us have doubts about what can only
be a diversionary tactic from the mayor to defuse the
conflictuality. Thousands of persons continue to demonstrate and the tension increases to avoid what appears
to be a victory turning into a mirage.

Wednesday, January 15
Thousands of people, more than yesterday and the day
before, return to the streets, walking from the site to the
police station to demand freedom without charge for the
arrested, then to the headquarters of the newspaper to
finish in the neighbourhood.
Nobody believes the words of a prankster and a scoundrel like the mayor of Burgos, whose sole intention is to
demobilize the struggle and to end the revolt. We stopped
them thanks to the mobilization of an entire neighbourhood. Aware of this all mobilizations are maintained.
The indefinite strike of the students continue until the
work is finally halted, until all arrested are freed without
charges and the police leaves the city .
Vans of riot police entered the area of the site clearly
to provoke people trying to demonstrate. Nevertheless, the demonstrators were able to reoccupy the area
by surrounding the vans. For several hours, there were
moments of intense tension amid shouts and chants demanding that the riot cops depart from the city.
The meeting Wednesday midday was lively and convened a big demo tonight at 19h to go to the police station as usual. At the start the anti- repression commission spoke. It strives to make contact with the arrested

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and the relatives of prisoners, in order to raise money
for the comrades to get out. This morning the judge of
the court No. 3 of Burgos jailed four comrades with a
bail of 3000 euros. They are accused of disturbing public order on Monday night. And there are still also the
two comrades imprisoned with the same bail who were
arrested Sunday night.
Then people have talked about the need to continue the
fight on all fronts of our lives. The struggle against the
Boulevard was a small drop that made the dismay erupt,
that puts on the table the need to self-organize to defend against precarity in all its forms, starting a process
for the creation of a combative community by opening
meeting spaces to get to know each other and face the
problems together.

Wednesday, January 15 / Friday, January 17
Although the works on the Boulevard of Vitoria Street in
Burgos have been abandoned (but where 46 people are
under judicial supervision pending trial – from which
three were released on bails of 3,000 euros each - following three nights of riots), protest marches were held
in major cities across the country.
In Barcelona, the demo provoked different incidents with
burned garbage bins and bank branches and various
administrative buildings vandalized. At the Ramblas,
a hundred demonstrators attacked the police station of
the Guardia Urbana throwing bottles, flower pots, tables
and chairs on the dozen of agents who were supposed
to protect the place. They had to find refuge inside. Five
police officers were injured and six vehicles damaged.
Demonstrations were also held in Zaragoza (several broken windows and burned trash) , Madrid (several banks
and stores had their windows broken), Burgos (3000
people), Alicante, Valencia and Santander, sometimes
punctuated by clashes.