Flotilla troublemakers encounter the Basque Police

Basque Police beat Gaza flotilla activists

Gaza flotilla activists clash with Basque police after blocking other passengers from exiting plane at the Bilbao airport.

Basque police at the Bilbao airport violently clashed with activists from the most recent Gaza flotilla over the weekend. The incident began when the activists stopped at the exit from the plane for a photo op, blocking the other passengers from exiting, and then refused to move when told to do so to allow the other passengers to safely disembark.

Footage showed police striking the activists with batons and dragging them across the floor.

Four activists were arrested upon their return to Spain on a flight from Turkey after being expelled from Israel. Police said that the activists were arrested for serious disobedience, resisting arrest, and assaulting law enforcement officers.

The Basque regional police force, the Ertzaintza, are an autonomous organization not part of the national Spanish Police.

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The Ertzaintza is the autonomous police force for the Basque Country, the main law enforcement and security force in the Basque Country. 

Basque police officers detain a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao airport

A Basque police officer beats a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla with a baton upon their arrival at Bilbao airport

Basque police officers detain members of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao airport

Police give Gaza flotilla activists a beating at airport days after their government condemned Israel's Ben Gvir

Arrest of several activists by members of the Ertzaintza at Bilbao airport

Activists blocked the exit for other passengers and police tried to move them

When a relative of one of the activists tried to approach them, a police officer forcefully prevented him from doing so

Use of force by Basque police officers

Bilbao airport