Mamouth jumped or fell in the river when fleeing from police again persuing him and friends for illegally selling T shirts in the street.
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The incidents have had aftershocks in different parts of the city where containers have been set on fire and street furniture destroyed.
He could not swim but held onto a post for some minutes before drowning.
Hours earlier, Mamouth (Mamour) was, in the company of other people, selling the shirts of different football teams on Avenida de la Constitución, next to the Post Office.
At around four in the afternoon, local police officers set up a squad to prevent this illegal activity, made up of plainclothes officers.
Upon seeing the police, the street vendors, about twelve in total, ran off in the direction of Paseo de Colón and the Muelle de Nueva York by the river.
Mamouth died on Sunday in the river, he jumped or fell into the water from a height of four metres next to the Maquiavelo restaurant. Later a police spokesman said they tried to save him.
A bundle containing 34 shirts from different football teams and national teams was recovered by a canoist
The damaged headquarters of the local police was later secured by more than two hundred agents of the armed Local and National Police.
Agents guarding the area of the La Ranilla police station RAÚL DOBLADO
More than two hundred local and national police officers were called to the La Ranilla police headquarters tonight after relatives, friends and colleagues of the street vendor who had died a few hours earlier after falling into the Guadalquivir River while fleeing from municipal agents burst in.
The street vendor who died drowned in Seville on Sunday had been sentenced to four months for resisting law enforcement officers, a sentence imposed on him two years ago.
There has been a long campaign against police racism against the immigrant community.
He was in a regular situation in Spain, where it is even known that he had worked. He also had at least two previous convictions for illegal street vending.
Manmouth had been arrested twice by the Local Police of Seville for this reason, according to sources in the case who confirmed to this newspaper.
The identity of the drowned vendor is Mamouth B., 43 years old and born in Senegal. He lived on Calle Brújula, in Madre de Dios, a short distance from the Local Police Headquarters, where thirty of the deceased’s compatriots went on Sunday night with very high spirits, throwing stones and bottles at the police headquarters.
As this newspaper was able to verify on site, this group destroyed the entrance to the police headquarters (doors, windows and various items of furniture) .
His friends’ attack required the presence of all available officers during the night of this Sunday in the streets of Seville, including the National Police.
The body of their friend Mamouth, was still at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Seville, his death being confirmed a few minutes after local police and firefighters managed to rescue his body from the water.
The local police officers who were inside their headquarters at that time of the attack by Mamouth’s friends had to ask for reinforcements, with all possible local and national police forces arriving at the scene.
There were scuffles between police officers from the Night Intervention Unit and the friends of the deceased, although the altercation was finally controlled.
The Security Delegation has just put out to tender the purchase of riot gear to deter participants in this type of violent incident.
After ‘dissuading’ the demonstrators, another large police force followed them to the area around the Los Pajaritos neighbourhood, where some of those involved in this altercation live.
More than a hundred officers remained behind to protect the façade of the Seville Local Police Headquarters building. Several rubbish containers were on fire in different parts of the city.
There have been a long succession of incidents in Spain due to racist attitudes and police suppression of people without other chance of work or without papers selling in the street without paying taxes.
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