Público blames far-right for Blocus riot unrest in Spain

Público attributes the Blocus riot network to the far right

The story comes from a left-wing outlet and the reaction was immediate: laughter, sarcasm and a string of cross-accusations. The newspaper Público reported that Blocus, that protest movement behind street blockades and clashes, is in fact a far-right invention designed to alienate the population. The thesis, summed up in a single line, unleashed a storm of replies ranging from disbelief to textbook conspiracy theory.

The first blow came from the narrative itself: if Blocus is a creation of the radical right, why have the riots ended with shops wrecked and arrests made? The most repeated response was the suspicion that the story hides something bigger. "Ayuso is behind Blocus and you know it", one person blurted out. Another added Mazón. A third completed the chain with Franco. The joke became a method: the longer the list of culprits grew, the more obvious it became that nobody believed the original diagnosis.

From political suspicion to the outrage business

The thread soon drifted onto economic ground. The question hanging over it all was who funds whom. One participant asked whether the PSOE (Spain's main centre-left party) is behind the rise of the far right, its funding and its protection of incivil activity. The irony wrapped a more serious accusation: that the major parties feed their adversaries because a strong enemy suits them. The profitable chaos theory is nothing new, but in this case it was applied without shame to both sides of the spectrum.

The conversation also left a trail of names. Someone mentioned the sister of a Galician politician, a corrupt figure called Pardo de Vera and Julio Iglesias's lawyers, in a leap nobody bothered to justify. The non sequitur was part of the show. Case closed, one wrote, as if the connection were obvious. It wasn't.

The hoax as a business: who wins when the streets burn

The shadow of the digital business loomed over several comments. There was talk of a honeypot to detect and profile the gullible, of a supposed naturalised Pakistani ringleader and of a man from Vladivostok named Sergei, ex-KGB and a former professor in the GDR. The chain of culprits stretched to the absurd. The Público story was buried under a mountain of theories that, deep down, all said the same thing: nobody accepts the official version without asking for the bill.

The closing note was the most unsettling fact. While people argued whether Blocus was far right, far left or a foreign power, the riots continued and shops in several cities proge up with their shutters smashed. The question nobody answered was the simplest one: who really benefits when the streets burn?