Photo: @JRCR_1949 on X, 14 July 2025
Torre Pacheco, Aranda de Duero, Almería, Torrevieja. Four names that, in recent days, have been added to Spain’s map of public outrage. The spark ignited in the Murcian town of Torre Pacheco, where a 68-year-old man was brutally beaten in broad daylight by a group of Maghrebi immigrants, allegedly just “for fun.” The assault has triggered an explosion in a pressure cooker that has been simmering for years: illegal squatting, drug trafficking, threats, machetes, and crime entrenched with near-impunity in many Spanish neighborhoods.
For three consecutive nights, residents of Torre Pacheco have taken to the streets, fed up with being ignored by authorities. Groups of local youths mobilized to find those responsible for the attack, while gangs of illegal immigrants responded armed with knives, sticks, and machetes. The result: riots, police charges, burning trash containers, reciprocal assaults, and six arrests—five Spaniards and one of Maghrebi origin.
The security operation deployed by the Civil Guard and Local Police, reinforced by special units, has served more to shield migrant-heavy neighborhoods than to restore calm to a terrified population. The Government’s delegate in Murcia, Mariola Guevara, has insisted that “racist behavior” will not be tolerated, while failing to condemn the attack on the elderly man that started it all.
Torre Pacheco es un polvorín. Desgraciadamente la realidad no se puede obviar pese a los esfuerzos del Gobierno y sus satelitales mediáticos.
— JUPOL (@JupolNacional) July 13, 2025
El despliegue de ayer por parte de Interior, o mejor dicho la falta del mismo, cuando era perfectamente previsible una noche de… pic.twitter.com/y5VA5l5bwp
Local residents have responded to the Ministry of the Interior’s inaction with growing anger—while Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has responded with his usual spin, deflecting blame instead of taking responsibility. On Monday, July 14, he blamed right-wing party VOX and “organized groups” for the unrest, accusing them of inciting hate. “It’s VOX’s fault and the fault of discourse like VOX’s,” he told Cadena SER, a well-known leftist radio station. Meanwhile, police unions continue to denounce a lack of resources.
Perhaps most striking is the unified effort by mainstream media and left-wing influencers to distort the facts and flip the story: racists attack immigrants because they are of a different colour. Nothing could be further from the truth, as has been explained time and again by the citizens themselves.
What exists is a feeling of disgust at the lack of respect, poor behaviour, and lack of integration of a large part of the Muslim population, especially Moroccans. Some sources suggest that Morocco may even be behind some of this tension as a strategy to generate chaos in Spain. It would not be the first time.
The violence isn’t limited to Murcia. In Aranda de Duero, Almería, and Torrevieja, clashes have also broken out in recent days between residents and groups of illegal immigrants. In every case, the same pattern repeats: rising crime, no real action from the authorities, anger from locals being treated like the problem, and too much protection for people who break the law and show no respect for Spain or its values.
🚨 Grave pérdida del principio de autoridad: en #Torrevieja, varios individuos intentan obstaculizar una detención agrediendo a los agentes.
— AUGC Guardia Civil 🇪🇸 (@AUGC_Comunica) July 12, 2025
👮♂️ Todo el apoyo a los compañeros que, pese a todo, siguen cumpliendo con su deber.#SeguridadCiudadana #RespetoALaAutoridad pic.twitter.com/7nc0uc8iV0
The numbers show a situation that can’t continue. Spain has received over eight million immigrants in just over two decades. Moroccans alone now exceed one million, according to the National Population Census as of January 1, 2025. And far from integrating, many have organized into gangs that control entire territories, operate violently, and defy authority.
The impact of this open-door policy is now showing up in public opinion. According to the latest polls, 70% of Spaniards now support the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants. What was once a political taboo is now a nationwide demand.
⚔️🇪🇸 Lloret de Mar: unos magrebíes que huían de la policía atropellaron a dos españoles. Tras esto, los vecinos fueron en busca de los magrebíes, pero la Policía intervino para evitarlo.
— 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗹 🇪🇦 (@edgar___es) July 13, 2025
Al igual que en Torre-Pacheco, la gente en Lloret de Mar está hasta los huevos de estas 🐀. pic.twitter.com/bn2mtvgShe
The assault on an elderly man, machetes in the streets, the complicit silence of the authorities, and the scapegoating of parties that speak uncomfortable truths only serve to inflame a social tension that many are now calling “pre-civil war.”
What happened in Torre Pacheco is not an isolated incident. It is the symptom of a country losing control of its own territory. While much of the Left continues to point the finger at the political Tight for allegedly stoking “racial hatred,” the streets are burning, and citizens are crying out for order, justice, and security.
