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The mayor of a village in southern Spain has been nicknamed the “Spanish Robin Hood” for organizing raids on supermarkets to feed the poor.

The raids by Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo, the 60-year-old far-left mayor of Marinaleda in Andalusia, and other activists were aimed at drawing media attention to the plight of millions of people struggling to make ends meet as Spain‘s economic crisis deepens.

Sanchez Gordillo rejects criticism of the two raids, in which shopping carts filled with food were taken away from supermarkets without paying.

“It is much more alarming that 34 per cent of the Andalusian workforce are without jobs,” the gray-bearded mayor, who wears a Palestinian neck scarf and has a picture of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in his office, told the daily El Pais.

Spain is grappling with an economic crisis that has sent unemployment soaring to more than 24 per cent. The government has responded with unpopular austerity measures to cut the 8.9-per-cent budget deficit.

Sanchez Gordillo, who has been summoned to be questioned at a court, is undeterred and plans to pursue his campaign.

“Marinaleda is about putting the public good before the private good, and about sharing wealth,” Valderrama said. “It can be a model for any country.”