The long strike of the workers of the Navarra company Huerta de Peralta achieved significant improvements in the working conditions of the workers. It also provoked repression against the strikers. The most common case was Abdenabi. The Foral Police imposed a crime of attack on the authority and the prosecution requested for him two and a half years of imprisonment and five years of expulsion from the country.

The groups that have promoted the campaign to support Abdenbi have reported at a press conference that the defense of the worker has reached an agreement with the prosecutor’s office. Abdenabi has seen his sentence reduced with a one-year prison sentence and an economic fine, which has prevented him from prison and expulsion. Abdenbi’s freedom has been an achievement of the “resistance and solidarity” of migrants, a wave that has spread to popular Navarros movements.

Joy and indignation

“The joy we express cannot hide our indignation. Because we know that the agreement reached is nothing more than the result of the ongoing threat that police forces and institutions are carrying out against the migrated people,” they explained. “Abdenabi has had to accept the deal for an attack that never happened, simply because otherwise he would have been expelled.”

At a press conference, they denounced the “racism” of institutions, the police and the courts, which “brings the criminalization of migration”. Finally, they stressed that the case of Abdenabi is not an isolated case: “The situation is very widespread in Navarre agriculture. There is a complete institutional and business structure that benefits from the situation of vulnerability that the system imposes on migrated people”. Finally, they have expressed their intention to continue to fight these situations together.