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INTRO | | Anti-immigrant protests continued in the south-eastern Spanish region of Almeria. The immigrants, mostly from north Africa, called on the Spanish authorities to protect them. BBC correspondent Daniel Schweimler reported. |
IN FULL | |  | Listen to the report in full |
 |  | 10th February 2000
Spain struggles with race riots
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NEWS 1 | | | Listen to the first part of the report |
| | | Great black clouds of smoke wafted over the south-eastern Spanish region of Almeria as a plastic recycling factory, set alight by anti-immigrant protestors burnt to the ground. Elsewhere in and around the town of El Ejido there have been clashes as riot police tried to clear roads blocked by the demonstrators. The local immigrant community has meanwhile asked the Spanish authorities for protection, after two days and nights of rioting which have seen their property ransacked and their cars overturned |
WORDS | | wafted: moved gently through the air
plastic recycling factory: a factory in which objects made of plastic are recycled. If you recycle things that have been used you process them so they can be used again
set alight: to cause something to burn: if something is alight, it is burning. Note that “set” is used as the present, past and past participle of the verb “to set”
anti-immigrant protestors: people who are protesting against the presence of immigrants. An immigrant is a person who has come to live in a country from another country
clashes: when people clash, they argue or fight with each other ransacked: if you ransack a building you disturb everything in it, leaving it in a mess |
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| NEWS 2 | | | Listen to the second part of the report |
| | | The violence erupted on Sunday following the funeral of a twenty-six year old local woman who was killed the previous day, allegedly by a Moroccan immigrant. Some of those at the funeral attacked local politicians, who had to seek refuge in the church, then directed their anger at the immigrants, who many local people blame for a recent increase in crime in the region." [ Police have made a few arrests and there are signs that some of the violence has been organised by people from outside the area |
| WORDS | | erupted: if fighting erupts, it starts suddenly, or suddenly gets worse allegedly: if you allege that something is true, you say it but do not prove it
directed: they turned and aimed their anger
blame: people think the immigrants are responsible for the fact that there are more crimes |
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| | | Read about the background in BBC News Online |
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