"Zero contact", as summarized by a member of Menys Turisme, Més Vida, the interactions with the Spanish government delegate, Alfonso Rodríguez, after thepolice charges of 26-J, the most important anti-saturation demonstration day in the Balearic Islands. Rodríguez has not contacted the organizers or the injured, despite having called a press conference the day after the protest to criticize the "disproportionate" actions of the National Police and announce that he had commissioned urgent reports to "determine responsibilities". "The images we have seen cause us concern. I have asked for explanations from the head of the National Police [José Antonio Puebla]. Violent actions were carried out by some members of the police force against people who posed no threat. I regret what has happened and convey my consternation," he said on July 27.

The National Police is finalizing a report that it plans to submit to the court regarding the incidents recorded at the end of the demonstration against over-tourism held on July 26 in Palma. This was made known by the police force just a few days after the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida i Alerta Solidària announced the details of the judicial offensive they are preparing against the officers who left about twenty demonstrators with injuries of varying degrees. The document, according to sources familiar with its content consulted by Europa Press, records the throwing of objects, alleged assaults on officers, and incidents with tourists, and argues that the police charges near Les Voltes and Antoni Maura avenue were a response to "the escalation of tension".

Alerta Solidària is preparing a judicial offensive for the police charges of July 26 during the demonstration against tourist overcrowding. The entity will file lawsuits for the two demonstrators who had to be hospitalized, is working to ensure that none of the complaints are dismissed, and is studying the launch of a new criminal action for an alleged violation of the right to demonstrate.

In democracies, governments begin to fall the day they decide to send the police to beat citizens. They don't fall that same day, nor the next, but when they make this colossal mistake, this unacceptable mistake, they are badly wounded. Beating citizens when they protest peacefully and legitimately is a sign of authoritarianism, but also of weakness. Of not knowing how to govern. They are very poor credentials to present themselves later at the polls.The direct political official responsible for the police charges against the demonstration —massive, historic— of July 26 is the government delegate Alfonso Rodríguez. Even if he did not order them and is against them, as he has declared, it is he who must assume political responsibility for them. Also, even if Pedro Sánchez has supported him with the disdain and ignorance that all Spanish presidents have always had in relation to the society, politics, and reality of the Balearic Islands. If it is true that delegate Rodríguez did not order the charges and is against them, then he must resign for not having known how to exercise his office and for having allowed the so-called security forces and bodies to act in the Balearic Islands outside or against his criteria (he was also against the detention of the activists from Santa Maria, but the detention did occur). Incompetence is also a reason to lose one's position.However, delegate Rodríguez is politically responsible for these events, but he is not the politician who benefits from them. Nor is he, for that matter, the one who enjoys them and even has fun with them. No: it is the politicians of the PP and Vox, who are in the Government and who have had a great time watching the government delegate do their dirty work. But the days have passed and things have become clear enough for those who want to see them. Going to Almudaina and explaining to Felipe VI (with the fake smile of the best occasions) that there is tourist overcrowding due to the socialists and then meeting with Pedro Sánchez making faces in the photos is not a solid argument. Nor are the sustainability tables that are born dead, nor the statements in which "saturation" is admitted while legislating to deregulate the protection of rural land and natural spaces. The PP and Vox would do well to advise some discretion to their domesticated journalists: some have even let slip, these days, that the baton blows of July 26 were "never better delivered". We have reasons to suspect that this is an opinion widely shared among the leaders of the parties that support the Government.The fact is that 70,000 Majorcans took to the streets on July 26 to say they are fed up with paying the consequences of the greed of a few. Police charges will only lead to more protests: the first, on Saturday, August 8 in Sóller, also convened by the platform Menys Turisme Més Vida, which will once again be a great success in participation and mobilization. Then there will be more, and all will be peaceful, civic, democratic, impeccable. Governments begin to fall like this. If President Prohens doesn't believe it, she can ask her friend M. Rajoy. The police charges in Catalonia for October 1 had something to do with the fact that eight months later a motion of no confidence against it succeeded. It also has to do with the fact that, even today, the PP has no political alliance with anyone other than the far-right Vox. It starts by hitting people, or laughing when they are hit, and ends up locked in a corner with fascists.

The delegation of the Spanish government in the Balearic Islands has asked the General Directorate of the Police to open a reserved information file to determine if some of the agents who intervened in the police charges last Sunday in Palma committed infractions liable to disciplinary sanction. The decision comes after a week marked by intense political and social controversy following the police action at the end of the demonstration against tourist overcrowding on July 26.

Felanitx hosted a protest this Tuesday afternoon against police action during Sunday's demonstration in Palma under the slogan 'Mallorca, at the limit'. The call, launched in less than 24 hours by various citizen groups and the Bloc per Felanitx, gathered more than 200 people.

The Human Rights Commission of the Balearic Islands Bar Association has condemned the police charges following Sunday's demonstration in Palma under the slogan 'Mallorca, at the limit' and has called for an independent and effective judicial investigation into the injuries caused to about twenty people and those responsible for ordering and carrying out these assaults.

One of the more than twenty people who were injuries during the police charges with which the demonstration against tourist saturation on Sunday in Palma ended is still hospitalized. The affected parties are now considering the possibility of filing a collective complaint against the National Police officers who participated in the operation. This was announced this Tuesday by one of the spokespersons for the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida, Jaume Pujol, during the rally that brought together nearly half a thousand people in front of the government delegation to demand the resignation of the delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez.

There is an image that better than any other summarizes what happened on Sunday: a massive and profoundly civic demonstration that ends with people injured by a violent police action. The question is inevitable: who had an interest in the narrative ceasing to be about mass tourism and becoming about public order?

The demonstration that this Sunday marched through the center of Palma ended with moments of tension and charges by the National Police at the entrances to Les Voltes, after more than two hours of mobilization without incidents. Several people were injured by baton blows during the police intervention, which occurred when hundreds of demonstrators demanded to be able to access the final point of the route, where the manifesto was being read.

Demonstrations are not only held in the street. They also contend with the aftermath, when a media and political narrative is imposed about what happened. And, after the police charges of 26-J, the narrative of tourist saturation has been sidelined in the media by another debate much more comfortable for Marga Prohens' Government. It is important not to lose focus, because the president is one of the main people responsible for responding to the problems that the tourism model generates in the daily lives of the citizens of the Balearic Islands. The day after one of the most massive protests ever seen in the Islands, Prohens has not felt the need to face the situation, nor to give explanations about the lack of management, nor to confront her unfulfilled promises. The president has spoken about the charges, has demanded explanations from the Spanish government delegate, Alfonso Rodríguez, and has remarked that she respects the right to demonstrate, as if that were not a given.

The National Police attributes the charges made on Sunday at the end of the demonstration against tourist saturation to a "radical minority". Police sources consulted by Europa Press assure that a group integrated within the tens of thousands of participants threw stones, cobblestones, and sticks at the agents, four of whom were injured.

The delegate of the Spanish government in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has distanced himself from the police action at the demonstration against tourist saturation, which he described as "disproportionate" in relation to the risk of a protest marked by "exemplary civic behavior". "Police charges depend on the "in situ operation, they are not decided by this delegate. The use of violence did not adjust to the risk," he stated this Monday, after the organizers of the protest and MÉS per Mallorca called for his resignation.

Not a single graffiti. Not a broken window. Not a single argument with the hundreds of tourists who were strolling through the center of Palma. Tens of thousands of people paraded this Sunday for more than two hours through the streets of the city in one of the most massive demonstrations in recent years without any incident occurring. The contrast with the end of the protest was absolute. When thousands of people were trying to reach Les Voltes to hear the reading of the manifesto, the National Police blocked the entrances and, a few minutes later, charged against the demonstrators with batons. Several videos recorded by attendees also show detonations during the police intervention.