http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6196
by BNP News
Rioting immigrants set fire to cars, shops and rubbish containers in a town in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6186 overnight after a Malian was stabbed to death while being mugged by Moroccans, Spanish police said on Monday.
A Civil Guard statement said Sega S., 24, was stabbed on Sunday night and died from his injuries early on Monday. Police arrested three Moroccans, one of them the suspected killer. After the stabbing, a score of angry sub-Saharan immigrants gathered in La Mojonera, in southern Almeria province, and started fires in shops and rubbish bins.
Police in riot gear were deployed to quell the riot and arrested two men from Ivory Coast and one from Guinea Bissau. There were similar riots in September in nearby Roquetas de Mar after a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3003 man was stabbed to death by other immigrants when he tried to intervene in a dispute.
Spain’s unemployment rate is now the highest in the European Union, and the government has said it will pay unemployed foreigners to go home, an offer few seem to have taken up.Backgrounder on Spain:
Since 2000, Spain has absorbed more than three million immigrants, boosting its population by ten percent. By 2005, the Third World immigrant population had topped 4.5 million – with the vast majority being Moroccan, Ecuadorian and Colombian. In that year, a regularisation programme increased the legal immigrant population by 700,000 people.
Since 2005, the immigrant population has continued to grow by leaps and bounds, and by 2008 it was estimated that the Third World element had reached 15 percent – out of a total population of some 40.5 million.
According to official Spanish government figures, there were 5,220,000 foreign residents in Spain in January 2008. While a number of these were of Eastern European origin, the vast majority were of Third World extraction, including in excess of 100,000 Chinese.
The growing immigrant population is the main reason for the slight increase in Spain’s fertility rate. From 2002 through 2008 the Spanish population grew by eight percent – of which six percent were of foreign extraction.
The large numbers of South American immigrants have brought with them a vicious gang culture to many of Spain’s cities since 2005. Rooted in well-established gangs among Hispanic populations in North and Latin America, groups such as the Latin Kings, the Netas (the Newborns), the Forty Twos, the Chicagos or even the bizarrely named Dominicans Don’t Play, have made swift inroads among the city’s rocketing immigrant population.
Imported into Spain, they have preyed on widespread unemployment, alienation and social problems amid the massed arrivals from former colonies in the past few years – the first major wave of immigration experienced by Spain – to recruit hundreds of teenagers.
Madrid’s police have been forced to create an ‘anti-Latin gang brigade’ as a result. One continuing police operation was sparked when gang members’ families complained to the police that financial blackmail and threats of extreme violence were being used to keep teenagers from leaving the gangs. A recently seized code of gang laws says the Latin Kings’ punishment for even minor disloyalty involves the offender being beaten unconscious by up to ten other gang members. Female traitors are repeatedly raped.
Official figures show that one third of Spain’s prison population are immigrants from non-European countries. According to figures released in August 2006, the total number of prisoners was 64,042 – of whom 19,919 were not originally from Spain. This figure does not include second or third generation immigrants, who constitute a hugely disproportionate number of violent criminals in Spain but who are classed by official figures as ‘Spanish.’
http://bnp.org.uk/2008/12/immigrant-rioting-flares-up-again-in-spain/