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Farmer protests have been taking place since Tuesday throughout Spain.  Yesterday they announced that would they take their protest to the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid today.  The government has announced that they would deploy riot police to avoid farmers blocking roads as they had done for the previous four days.

Meanwhile, yesterday, social media users were widely sharing footage of police aggression towards protestors.  Many are claiming these are not the usual police officers but rather members of Eurogendfor.


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On the second day of the farmers’ protests, EuroNews reported that the protests, involving several thousand people on tractors and in other vehicles, had not been backed by Spain´s three main farming organisations  However,  they had called for separate protests in the coming days.

Farmers blocked roads across Spain for the third day running on Thursday with the main farmers’ unions joining the demonstrations.  France 24 reported that some of Thursday’s actions were organised by Spain’s three main farming unions Asaja, Coag and UPA.

“Some demonstrations deteriorated into scuffles when police moved in to remove roadblocks, prompting several arrests, with the interior ministry raising to 19 the total number detained since the start of the protests,” France 24 wrote.

Yesterday, the fourth day of blocking streets across the country, the protests centred around the northern cities of Oviedo, Pamplona and Zaragoza, with tractors clogging several city streets and commuter roads. In many places, farmers kept their protests going overnight, ABC News reported.

Meanwhile, on social media on Friday the video below was being widely shared with people commenting that members of the Eurogendfor are being used against protestors.  For example, the video was shared on Twitter with the comment: “It’s being reported that the EU has deployed their European paramilitary police Eurogendfor, to crush the farmers in Granada.”

Has EU deployed their European paramilitary police Eurogendfor to crush farmers in Granada, Spain?

Other videos being shared also raise concerns about the deployment of Eurogendfor such as THIS tweet and the tweet below.

Another Twitter user suggests that the aggressive tactics used by police in the videos above are not the actions of the national police force.  The translation of the comment that accompanies the video below reads: “Murcia Spain, the police set up street blockades, which the farmers easily bypass. The Spanish police take little action and let them do their thing. Clearly whose side they are on. Eurogendfor, on the contrary, they do fight, so you can recognise the difference as a layman.”

For comparison to the unforms worn by police in the videos above, some on social media are sharing the image below taken from an article about Eurogendfor officers training the National Police of Ukraine (“NPU”) in 2016.  However, no description accompanies the image and it seems that the men in the image are NPU and not Eurogendfor officers. 

We make this conclusion for two reasons. Firstly, the Ukranian emblem on their uniforms. Secondly, the article stated that four Eurogendfor officers went to Ukraine.  Another image in the same article shows about 15 similarly uniformed men in the background, which in the image below the majority are out of camera shot.

Despite Eurogendfor clearly stating it is only deployed to stabilise crisis and conflict areas outside the European Union (see next section), if Eurogendfor has been deployed against the Spanish farmers, it would not be for the first time within the European Union.

In 2018, it was believed that Eurogendfor was deployed during a protest in France.  This is based on eyewitness accounts of the presence of armoured vehicles displaying the European Union flag or foreign emblems and some people seeing and recognising the Eurogendfor emblem – the blue weapon with the sword and the motto “Lex Paciferat” (English: The law makes peace).

A group of farmers announced plans yesterday to gather in Madrid for a Saturday protest near the headquarters of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (“PSOE”).

According to Europa Press, faced with the possibility of a “tractor rally” in front of PSOE headquarters, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has warned that “they are not going to allow” the protests with tractor drives and road blockades that have been taking place in several locations to reach the PSOE headquarters.

El Mundo reported that hundreds of Police Intervention Unit (“UIP”) officers, better known as riot police, will be deployed in Madrid and Valladolid to avoid the roadblocks announced for today, which will be the fifth day of the farmers’ protests.

The demonstrations are expected to continue over the coming weeks, with a major protest in Madrid planned for 21 February 2024.

There have been other protests in countries such as France, Poland and Greece in recent days. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, has already made concessions to farmers over the last few weeks on environmental rules, subsidies and exemptions, and this week decided to shelve plans to halve the use of pesticides.

Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib of Belgium, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Wednesday that the rules governing farming “need to be reassessed in the light of current realities”.

You can read live news updates about the protests in Spain on Europa Press HERE or El Mundo HERE.   The web pages are in Spanish with the option to translate.

What is Eurogendfor?

Eurogenfor on Twitter, retrieved 9 February 2024

The European Gendarmerie Force (“EUROGENDFOR”) is a European rapid reaction force composed of elements of several European police and gendarmerie forces. Eurogendfor is tasked with performing policing duties within the scope of crisis management operations.  However, as its Twitter profile above states, these operations are for areas outside the European Union.

Its website states: “EUROGENDFOR is offered as an operational, pre-organised, robust and rapidly deployable asset, able to perform all police tasks. EUROGENDFOR can be put mainly at disposal of the EU, the UN, OSCE, NATO, and other international organisations or ad hoc coalitions.”

Officially the acronym for the organisation is written in capital letters, “EUROGENDFOR,” however, for ease of reading we have used the proper noun version, “Eurogendfor.”

The following are excerpts from an article titled ‘European Gendarmeries, From Their Origins to The European Gendarmerie Force’ published in The CoESPU Magazine, No. 4, 2020.

Gendarmeries were – unequivocally – established as police forces called to provide robust, professional solutions to increased requests for public security. Their personnel were mainly taken from the best elements of the armed forces, therefore offering discipline, professionalism and dedication. Since their establishment, gendarmeries continue to operate for and within the populace, offering an all-encompassing set of capacities, rooted in their military background. Such an approach proved to be easily applicable to deployments abroad, where populations are threatened before, during and after conflicts or crises.

The common grounds, traditions and experiences of European gendarmeries were then gathered together with the establishment of the European Gendarmerie Force (“EUROGENDFOR”). This initiative offers a police force with military status capable of performing all police (policing) tasks in conflict prevention, peace and humanitarian missions and in crisis management operations outside of the borders of the European Union, under any chain of command (either military or civilian).

Gendarmeries are police forces with a “military status,” mostly the ones following the model of the French Gendarmerie.

The “military status” grants gendarmerie forces the affiliation to both the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Interior. Some of the Eurogendfor gendarmerie forces are a standalone armed force, like the traditional ones, under the Ministry of Defence and the Defence General Staff, while others only respond to the Ministry of Interior. Whatever their hierarchical affiliation, when exerting civilian police duties, all of them fall under the functional authority of the Ministry of Interior.

The first formal step towards the setting up of the Eurogendfor was taken with the Declaration of Intent, agreed by France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain at the meeting of Ministers of Defence on 17 September 2004 in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

On 18 October 2007, the Treaty establishing Eurogendfor was signed in Velsen, the Netherlands. The five founding countries were joined by Romania and, later, by Poland. Turkey and Lithuania are also part of the organisation, respectively with observer and partner status.

The Eurogendfor force is defined in the Treaty of Velsen as: “The personnel of the police forces with military status assigned by the parties to Eurogendfor to fulfil a mission or an exercise, following the transfer of authority, and a limited number of other personnel designated by the Parties in an advisory or supporting role.”

To this effect, the Eurogendfor force is not a stand-by (or permanently assigned) force, since it is generated on an ad hoc basis depending on the type of mission to be performed.

Since its foundation, Eurogendfor has been deployed, under the aegis of the main international organisations, in various theatres of operations, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Libya, Niger, and Mali.

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raj patel
raj patel
3 months ago

The same forces that have been deployed by the cabal against foreign countries are now being used against its own people. Good to hear that the normal Spanish Police are on the farmer’s side as they would live locally and be integrated with the community. Hence, why the cabal bring in outsiders to impose their illegal laws. However, this is to be expected as things deteriorate before they will improve as the people say ‘ enough is enough’ – and the good and brave people will.

john
john
Reply to  raj patel
3 months ago

While I applaud the action the farmers are taking, it is a shame more of the public aren’t getting involved. They are the ones consuming farmers produce.
Looking at it from a different perspective, could these demonstrations be playing into the hands of the criminals? If farmers are out in force, who’s left to grow the crops the silent public rely on?

xxx
xxx
Reply to  john
3 months ago

And who is going to participate?Those who are still wearing the masks and queuing to get waxed?They do not have a clue what is going on, isn’t it?

SilencedAbi4
SilencedAbi4
Reply to  raj patel
3 months ago

Are you sure? Sorry.
No one blinked an eye when not so long ago, in 2006, they sent horses and special force into a peaceful crowd in Budapest, Hungary, they shot rubber bullets among people including children and pretty of foreigner tourists, tortured people and so on.
There were photos about policemen or special agents changing clothes to meddle into the crowd and causing trouble. The identity plates somehow disappeared from the uniforms of the police and according to many witnesses they spoke on a foreign language.
The MSM remained silent, human rights didn’t exist anymore.
The falling political party was blamed but who won the biggest cake was the second political party, right now the ruler in the country. The man, the ex leader is still not jailed, never was, he is still in politics and he might be the prime minister again.
This is how this game is played.

xxx
xxx
Reply to  SilencedAbi4
3 months ago

The majority is ignorants and that’s the fact.And who is going to participate?Those who are still wearing the masks and queuing to get waxed?They do not have a clue what is going on, isn’t it?
You are right, they play the game which the stupids will never see throe.And those few, not complete evils, which they can see, they are too few to be a force to change anything.And because everybody /from our 15% population/ knows it, most of them goes to do the profitable harm, instead to do good and to be poor.The best proof of existence of God is the presence of the evil.The majority of people are only good to them to send them to meat grinder like in Ukraine or elsewhere.The ,,clever government,,mafia is controlling us, and now they want to enslave us.In order to do that, they plan to kill and reduce the population, so that they will be able to control it./plus they do not need us to breath they air for sure/.It Looks like the mirror, the world mafia was using decades to misled and control masses of naive people has broken and there is no replacement.
It is easy to compare what the political mafia is doing when we can look how monkeys are fighting with another monkeys for the property of the fruit tree.’in the forest.Completely same reasons and same results.Dead monkeys eaten by competing clan!

john
john
Reply to  raj patel
3 months ago

The Most Important Story Not Being Talked About Farmer Strikes Force Global Change
https://vigilante.tv/w/8E1xoRsPuPihTKYCgyznC1

Stuart-james.
Stuart-james.
3 months ago

Clearly, the use of force exposes failure of gov to manage.

SilencedAbi4
SilencedAbi4
Reply to  Stuart-james.
3 months ago

How? It’s for intimidating people to suppress them. Usually with success.

Robbi
Robbi
Reply to  Stuart-james.
3 months ago

If you actually believe this the extent of violence The Club of Rome/Black Nobility is willing to perpetrate; need to grow-up and open your eyes. Not everything in history is a lie…THE ENEMY CRIMINALS AGAINST HUMANITY AND ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET; the Imperialist-Feudal Nazi’s are exposed for the first time in all history. THEY ARE GOING FOR BROKE TO STEAL THE WORLD; TO DEPOPULATE, STERILIZE AND ENSLAVE.

THEY HAVE ALREADY SOUGHT TO MURDER YOU WITH A FAKE DISEASE PROVIDING MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW TO REMOVE YOUR CREATOR ENDOWED INALIENABLE RIGHTS DEFINED BY THE U.S CONSTITUTION. THEY HAVE USED THAT FAKE DISEASE AS A PRETEXT TO GIVE YOU AN Ai/BIOWEAPON INJECTION TO MURDER YOU OR TO MAKE YOU INTO BLUE TOOTH TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE YOU A SLAVE THEY MONITOR, SURVEIL AND CONTROL YOUR MIND, ELECTRONICALLY. DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY BOUNDARIES THE EVILS WON’T GO TO FOR ABSOLUTE POWER AS IN THE DARK, MIDDLE AGES WITH TOTAL CONTROL OVER YOU AND ALL THOSE LIVING?

mcc
mcc
3 months ago

UKIP were warning for years about EUGendFors, whose officers have diplomatic immunity and can do what they damn well like to us.
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Petra
Petra
3 months ago

You shouldn’t fight these police criminals in the streets, but visit them at their Homes.

That’s the best way to handle them.

SilencedAbi4
SilencedAbi4
Reply to  Petra
3 months ago

This is exactly why they wanted an EU army (or any foreign army) and maybe this is the cause they let immigrants in, who interestingly rarely look to be a normal family but fighting aged men.

Mark Deacon
Mark Deacon
Reply to  Petra
3 months ago

Their families first … the state is more likely to put pressure on your family as much as somebody they do not like.

Chris C
Chris C
3 months ago

Essentially the Spanish farmers are being intimidated by Nazi-communist U.N./E.U. globalist thugs and bullies, some recruited from the many millions of illegal immigrants whom the U.N. are forcing onto Western nations, as witnessed when similar women-beating armed forces attacked innocent Aussies protesting lockdowns etc.

We the People need to form our own systems, including our own police and justice networks which can then prosecute all complicit (conspirators and collaborators) in these OMNICIDAL Crimes against Creation.

john
john
Reply to  Chris C
3 months ago

Certain countries are setting up the correct National Governments standing on the Land and Soil jurisdiction.
https://states.americanstatenationals.org/state-coordinators/
Apart from those listed, there is also Northern Ireland and Eire.
Getting behind those National Governments in support, is the way forward.
By doing so cuts off the Corporate money supply which relies on the credit of men and women. Plus the value of assets to borrow credit against.
Why do you think they instigated the jab genocide?
The more people they murder, the less there are to claim back everything that has been stolen from them. The criminals get to keep it all.
All the more reason to support those doing right by setting up National Governments.

xxx
xxx
Reply to  john
3 months ago

Which countries?

xxx
xxx
Reply to  Chris C
3 months ago

You have to start with fixing the recent one.Any new system you will put up will end the same.It is invented by people and also destroyed by them.Just keep fixing is only strategy.Keep starting goes nowhere.

SilencedAbi4
SilencedAbi4
3 months ago

Soon in your neighbourhood…
“Welsh farmers protest that new rules ordering them to set aside land for tree planting and wildlife will be ‘the death’ of their livelihoods”These criminal bastards, none of them was worried about wildlife when they blanketed the earth with microwaves for control and killing. Wildlife my arse…

Yo Bloood
Yo Bloood
Reply to  SilencedAbi4
3 months ago

Yep same has the chemtrails

Mary Ann Dowrick
Mary Ann Dowrick
3 months ago

A very sad day for Spanish farmers. Isn’t that what the WEF said they would do though. Cause people to riot then have an excuse to arrest them.

Ursula, you my dear have lot to answer for!

Goldilocks
Goldilocks
3 months ago

Time to get out the pitchforks!

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Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
3 months ago

Hi Rhoda,
That is a splendid article.
I hope you cover more of these demonstrations.
Also, I hope you realise these farmers may be our salvation.
I know a few farmers locally, they are all good hardworking people.
They are fed up about being the man in the middle.
Which ever way they jump, is always wrong.
This has been planned for years.

Islander
Islander

Dave,

“Salvation”???

Of the crucified Lord Jesus (Acts 4:10-11) it is written:

“Neither is there SALVATION in any other: for there is NONE other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 4:12.

Don’t put your faith in the farmers!

I don’t doubt for one second that our farmers, here and elsewhere are “good hardworking people” that are being marginalised, ostracised, and abused…but ultimately they won’t save anyone!

Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
Reply to  Islander
3 months ago

Hi Islander,
Trust you to put words in my mouth.
What I meant was, The Farmers have set an example that we could follow.
For the last 5 years I have worn a yellow vest, in support of the French Yellow Vest demonstrators.
Many were killed or maimed by the Police, just for having an opinion.

Mark Deacon
Mark Deacon
3 months ago

Interestingly … Their personnel were mainly taken from the best elements of the armed forces.

But they have no national sovereignty operating for the globalists does this make them any different to mercenaries?

Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
Dave Owenhttps://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/for
Reply to  Mark Deacon
3 months ago

Hi
Mark Deacon,
In the UK during a Miners strike, a group of us were questioned by strange Police.
I had been in the Army and knew these people were army. They had no identification numbers, and had boots that shone, and spoke like troops.
I took the vehicle registration number and later wrote to my MP.
The reply said, there was no such number, and the would have been Police from another area, but could not be located.
Nothing happens by chance.

Robbi
Robbi
3 months ago

THEY ARE IN EXPERIMENTAL PHASE…To know what intensity of boundary to establish before ‘The People’ will rise-up to violence; providing them excuses to perpetrate massacre.

CIVIL WAR IS COMING ACROSS THE WEST compliments of The Black Nobility/Club of Rome who are TERRIFIED of ‘The People’ as there are so many of them.

‘The People’ MUST PREPARE AS THE ENEMY CRIMINALS AGAINST ALL HUMANITY AND LIFE ON THE PLANET ARE GOING FOR BROKE SINCE WE KNOW WHO THEY REALLY ARE NOW and also our Politicians and Deep State Minions are simply cowardly pukes purchased and owned by them and their International Mafia.

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[…] Spain: Riot police are used to crush farmers’ protests Farmer protests have been taking place since Tuesday throughout Spain. Yesterday they announced that would they take their protest to the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid today.  The government has announced that they would deploy riot police to avoid farmers blocking roads as they had done for the previous four days. Meanwhile, yesterday, social media users were widely sharing footage of police aggression towards protestors.  Many are claiming these are not the usual police officers but rather members of Eurogendfor. […]

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[…] Spain: Riot police are used to crush farmers’ protestsFarmer protests have been taking place since Tuesday throughout Spain. Yesterday they announced that would they take their protest to the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid today.  The government has announced that they would deploy riot police to avoid farmers blocking roads as they had done for the previous four days. Meanwhile, yesterday, social media users were widely sharing footage of police aggression towards protestors.  Many are claiming these are not the usual police officers but rather members of Eurogendfor. […]

Homer Bedloe
Homer Bedloe
3 months ago

The Spanish allow their country to be over run with Muslim Terrorists who blow up trains, but crack on the people that grow their food. Spain is as crazy as the U.S., U.K., or Canada.

Roger
Roger
3 months ago

What is wrong with these stupid brainwashed egotistical police people, they should throw down their shields and side with the farmers ! The farmers are defending their rights! Wake up police your not safe too, you might think you are… your wrong your just pieces to the so called elites cabal who are all criminals! And if you think about it your all aiding and abetting criminals murder other humans ! Police people you all need to wake the fuck up ! Hypothetically if we’re all dead and gone… do you think they are going to need you ?.

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[…] Eurogendfor Sinds dinsdag vinden in heel Spanje boerenprotesten plaats. Gisteren kondigden ze aan dat ze hun protest vandaag naar het hoofdkwartier van de Socialistische Partij in Madrid zouden brengen. De regering heeft aangekondigd dat ze de oproerpolitie zal inzetten om te voorkomen dat boeren wegen blokkeren, zoals ze de afgelopen vier dagen hebben gedaan, meldt The Exposé. […]

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Rumple Stiltskin
3 months ago

When Tyrannical Evil Despots are in power, this is what happens when the citizens have been disarmed.

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