*Crackdowns on Free Speech Rise Across a Europe Wary of Terror* By RAPHAEL MINDER FEB. 24, 2016 MADRID — A puppet show at an open square in Madrid during Carnival festivities this month featured a policeman who tried to entrap a witch. The puppet officer held up a little sign to falsely accuse her, using a play on words that combined Al Qaeda <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaeda...> and ETA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/eta/inde...>, the Basque separatist group. Angry parents complained, and the real police stepped in. They arrested two puppeteers, who could now face as much as seven years in prison on charges of glorifying terrorism and promoting hatred. Paradoxically, the puppeteers say in their defense, the police proved their point: that Spain <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/spain/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>’s antiterrorism laws are being misapplied, used for witch hunts. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/europe/spain-europe-protest-free-spe...