2017/11/09

Spanish satirical magazine taken to court


El Jueves is a satirical and humorous magazine. news – more than 40 years, to be exact. On October 4th it published a piece about Spanish riot police in Catalonia. The piece, titled ‘The continued presence of riot police uses up cocaine reserves in Catalonia,’ refers to the law enforcement dispatched to Barcelona and other Catalan cities for the October 1 referendum vote. The Spanish law enforcement saw this as an accusation, and in turn took the magazine to court. Indeed, editor of El Jueves, Guille Martínez was summoned to testify on November 8. Just today 10 Spanish Military police agents were detained by drug traffick.

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