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How many people were arrested in Spain's general strike?

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Spain's Interior Ministry counted 53 arrests across the country by eight in the evening. That count leaves out Catalonia and the Basque Country, which run their own police.

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Arrests counted by Interior MinistrySource: europa press · 11.11.2026

The Basque police reported 13 detainees of their own, counted separately, and they are not in that national total.

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Detainees in the Basque CountrySource: europa press · 11.11.2026

Two people were detained in Madrid after police charges at the evening march. A single arrest in Barcelona for burning bins was reported by Catalan police and sits outside Interior's total.

Madrid and Barcelona

Madrid and Barcelona

Interior also logged 1,044 incidents in that same count, which stops at eight in the evening and covers neither Catalonia nor the Basque Country.

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Incidents excl. Catalonia & Basque CountrySource: europa press · 11.11.2026

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