SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- Spanish Military Prepares for Domestic Repression | Global Research
In response to the socially explosive conditions resulting from
high unemployment, attacks on living standards and rising inequality,
Spanish military units are being prepared for use in internal
repression.
The Spanish digital daily, Público, recently revealed that
around 200 soldiers from the Light Armoured Cavalry Regiment Lusitania
No.8, based in Valencia, have been receiving special crowd control
training, including the use of anti-riot equipment, by the military
police.
One of the participants said that “they never explained what mission
we needed this training for”. Another said, “People think that a lot of
tension can be seen in the streets every day, that there is a lot of
unrest … they tell us in the barracks that the National Police are
overwhelmed, that it doesn’t have the means or the personnel.”
Sources at the barracks described the training as “strange and
absolutely unprecedented,” but added, “We have to be prepared for
everything, especially in these current times.”
