《中英對照讀新聞》Spanish cafe manager becomes hero for blocking riot police 西班牙咖啡店經理力阻鎮暴警察成為英雄
◎俞智敏
A cafe manager has become a hero to many in Spain, and an Internet star, after standing up to riot police and letting people protesting government cutbacks take refuge in his establishment.
一位咖啡店經理在挺身對抗鎮暴警察,讓抗議政府緊縮政策的民眾躲進他的店裡避難後,被許多西班牙人視為英雄,更成為網路明星。
Alberto Casillas stood at the entrance to the Cafe Prado in central Madrid with his arms outstretched to stop police from entering and detaining demonstrators who poured into the cafe when police charged the protestors.
卡西亞斯站在馬德里市中心區的「草地咖啡」門口,張開雙臂阻止警察進入店內逮捕示威民眾,這些民眾是在警察開始毆打示威者時湧進咖啡店。
Videos of the 49-year-old, wearing a white shirt and black tie as he blocked the doorway as protestors cowered behind him, have since become one of the most discussed on social media sites like Twitter.
這位49歲的經理穿著白襯衫、打著黑領帶,用肉身擋在店門口,示威群眾躲在他身後的影片已成為推特等社交媒體網站上最熱門的討論話題之一。
"People started to file into the cafe in huge numbers. There were between 200 and 300 people inside at the time. There were children, youths, elderly people. If anyone got injured I would have felt very bad," said Casillas.
「大批群眾開始湧入咖啡店。當時店裡大約擠進了200到300人,包括小孩、年輕人和老人,假如有人受傷,我會覺得非常難過,」卡西亞斯說。