The local authorities in the city of Valladolid have opted to deploy 450 police officers along the route of Thursday's time trial stage of the Vuelta a España, amid what a local state official said were signs that expected pro-Palestine protests could expand their usual fields of action.
"We have indications that wider actions are being organised beyond the usual placing of [Palestinian] flags outside the route," Jacinto Canales, a state official in Valladolid, told the news agency EFE.
