- Title: Police scuffle with pro-independence protesters at Barcelona's airport
- Date: 14th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 14, 2019) (REUTERS) CATALAN RIOT POLICE USING BATONS TO DISPERSE PRO-INDEPENDENCE PROTESTERS AT BARCELONA'S AIRPORT VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE ARRESTING PROTESTERS POLICE LINE PROTESTERS WITH THEIR ARMS RAISED UP IN THE AIR PROTESTERS WITH THEIR FACES COVERED RIOT POLICE HOLDING BATONS PROTESTERS WITH THEIR ARMS RAISED UP IN THE AIR RIOT POLICE RUNNING POLICE LINE GIRONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 14, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DRAPED IN CATALAN PRO-INDEPENDENCE "ESTELADA" FLAGS BLOCKING THE TRAIN TRACKS PROTESTERS SINGING AS THEY BLOCK THE TRAIN TRACKS PROTESTERS BLOCKING THE TRAIN TRACKS
- Embargoed: 28th October 2019 13:26
- Keywords: Supreme Court ruling on Catalan jailed leaders Catalonia ruling Catalonia independence protest conviction protests
- Location: BARCELONA AND GIRONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA AND GIRONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA001B12L8HZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Spain's Supreme Court's conviction of nine of 12 separatist leaders on trial over the region's 2017 failed independence bid on Monday (October 14) triggered street protests across the region and scuffling between riot police and pro-independence supporters broke out in Barcelona's busy El Prat airport.
The ruling sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to up to 13 years in prison for sedition, dividing opinion both in Catalonia and across Spain. Three other defendants, who were also on trial for their involvement in the October 2017 referendum held in spite of a ban and a short-lived independence declaration, were found guilty only of disobedience and not sentenced to prison.
Protesters blocked train and metro access to the Barcelona airport and others temporarily halted traffic on the A2 highway, as well as on several regional roads across Catalonia, officials at the road traffic agency said.
The regional train network was interrupted in the separatist stronghold of Girona by people standing on the tracks, wrapped in pro-independence flags.
The Catalan independence drive attracted worldwide attention and triggered Spain's biggest political crisis in decades, unnerving financial markets.
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