At least 12 people have been injured -a demonstrator and 11 police officers- and another has been arrested in a protest by farmers from Salamanca against the sanitation of bovine tuberculosis that prevents cattle from leaving the community of Castilla y León, which has led to in clashes.
A 49-year-old man has been transferred to the Hospital of Salamanca with a gash in the head as a result, he has indicated, of the police action when he tried to enter the Territorial Delegation of the Junta in Salamanca, according to EFE sources from 112.
Another of the farmers who participated in the protest has been arrested in the context of clashes between police and protesters, sources from the Government Sub-delegation in Salamanca have confirmed to EFE.
As EFE has been able to verify, the events began when hundreds of ranchers tried to enter the building of the Territorial Delegation of the Junta in Salamanca, something that riot police prevented.
Not being able to enter in droves, they have destroyed the entrance and the doors with their sticks and have also used the same protection fences. They have also launched flares and eggs, which have also hit journalists and photographers.
The protest began at 12:30 p.m. called by the Unión por la GanaderÃa, a group that unites twenty-two associations from the Salamanca countryside that seek to “achieve the immediate dismissal of the head of Animal Health of Salamanca, of the head of Animal Health of Castilla y León and of the Director General of Health of the Ministry”, all of them civil servants, according to an internal call provided to EFE.
The situation has calmed down after 2:00 p.m. as some representatives of the farmers have achieved a meeting with some charge of Agriculture within the Delegation.
On May 22, Unión por la GanaderÃa announced the start of a series of protests with the stoppage of the Salamanca cattle market that Monday and the prices of the market for the management of bovine tuberculosis by the Junta de Castilla y León and the Government of Spain.
The Unión por la GanaderÃa group from Salamanca will boycott the sanitation included in the measures against bovine tuberculosis as of June 12 if the Administrations do not modify the current protocols.
“We are going to mobilize people to prevent the development of sanitation as of June 12 if there are no changes, because the viability of the exploitations is being jeopardized,” the president of Asaja Salamanca and spokesman for the company told Efe. Union for Livestock, Juan Luis Delgado.
