A concentration in València denounced on Friday afternoon the «campaign of criminalization and racist violence» taking place in Torre Pacheco (Murcia), «especially against the Moroccan community.» «We want to live in peace and harmony, and this wave of hatred and extreme right cannot continue,» they demanded.
This was expressed by one of the spokeswomen of the platform València Pels Drets de les Persones Immigrades, Boutaina El Hadri, during the concentration organized by the platform València Pels Drets de les Persones Inmigrades, held in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de València.
The concentration denounced that «against racism and xenophobia, the response is unity.» Participants chanted slogans like ‘Torre Pacheco is not alone’, ‘We are not leaving’, or ‘Mazón resignation’. Additionally, various banners and posters could be seen with messages such as ‘València against hatred’, ‘No human being is illegal’, or ‘We are all equal’.
The spokeswomen of the platform València Pels Drets de les Persones Immigrades, Fatine Sakri and Boutaina El Hadri, expressed that they gathered «against hatred, racism, morophobia, Islamophobia, and in solidarity with the people in Torre Pacheco.»
In this regard, Sakri lamented that in 2025, «there are people trapped in their homes afraid to go out, people who have lost their businesses.» She also denounced that there is now «an excuse to commit racist actions and have people applaud them.»
She also emphasized that there are cases of Islamophobia being recorded now, but she believes that it is not the norm, and most incidents are not filmed. She denounced a «historical racism based on a colonial history.» «We see it now in the immigration law, in the existence of detention centers, in border policies, during the dana, when the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, linked thefts to immigration,» she recounted.
«We do not want to be instrumentalized or criminalized, we do not want to be used or targeted, we want anti-racist policies in response to what is happening because we do not want it to happen again,» she asserted.
For her part, El Hadri pointed out that «many Moroccan women wanted to be here and could not come because they are afraid, and in a democratic society, that cannot be allowed.» «Those who should be afraid and should be imprisoned are the far-right parties, the fascists, the neo-Nazis,» she retorted.
She also thanked the 1,250 entities that signed the manifesto against hatred, believing that the document shows the entire European Union that coexistence is possible. «We want to live in peace and harmony, and this wave of hatred and the extreme right cannot continue,» she emphasized.
Similarly, the spokeswoman described these movements that «rely on social media» and lamented that «in the end, the message resonates» because it is «a simple, direct, contentless message, and that is where the work awaits us as an organized civil society,» she concluded.
DENOUNCE THE «IMMIGRANT HUNT»
During the reading of the manifesto by the spokeswomen, they rejected the «campaign of collective criminalization» against the Moroccan population in particular and migrants in general residing in Torre Pacheco. They also condemned calls for violence, for the «hunting of immigrants by far-right groups.» They stated that justice «cannot and should not be replaced by moral lynchings or by media or social persecutions.»
«Advocating for coexistence is not just about rejecting hatred, but also about promoting spaces for encounter, dialogue, and cooperation that strengthen social fabric and guarantee the safety and well-being of all these individuals without distinction,» they affirmed.
The concentration was also used to denounce the current situation of immigrants facing institutions that «hinder their regularization» and against «the genocide suffered in Palestine.»
