- Title: Separatists clash with police in third day of protests in Barcelona
- Date: 16th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 16, 2019) (REUTERS) PLASTIC RUBBISH CONTAINER IN FIRE ON ROAD, MAN THROWING A CHAIR INTO THE FIRE PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY FROM POLICE CONTAINERS IN FIRE, WATER FALLING FROM A BUILDING RIOT POLICE TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE STREET FIREMEN EXTINGUISHING THE FIRE SMOKE FROM EXTINGUISHED CONTAINERS FIRE IN THE GROUND, POLICE VEHICLES WOOD IN FIRE, RIOT POLICE IN THE BACKGROUND PROTESTERS GATHERED, FIRE IN THE BACKGROUND PROTESTERS IN THE STREET, PLASTIC RUBBISH CONTAINER IN FIRE ON ROAD PROTESTERS IN THE STREET, RIOT POLICE VEHICLES RIOT POLICE IN LINE, FIRE IN THE BACKGROUND PROTESTER THROWING AN OBJECT AT RIOT POLICE RIOT POLICE LINE RIOT POLICE SHOOTING FOAM PROJECTILES PROTESTERS PASSING BY WITH HANDS UP, RIOT POLICE LINE RIOT POLICE LINE PROTESTERS THROWING TOILET PAPER TO RIOT POLICE PROTESTERS CROUCHED IN THE STREET RIOT POLICE LINE, SMOKE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MOVING POTS WITH PLANTS AND MAKING A LINE USING A BIKE SIGNAL RIOT POLICE IN LINE SHOOTING FOAM PROJECTILES RIOT POLICE ADVANCING TOILET PAPER FALLING DOWN PROTESTERS CROUCHING RIOT POLICE IN LINE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS FORMING BARRICADE WITH PLANTS IN ROAD RIOT POLICE IN LINE / SHOOTING FOAM PROJECTILES RIOT POLICE ADVANCING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED RIOT POLICE IN LINE / PROTESTERS WITH HANDS UP PROTESTERS CHANTING AT POLICE VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE ADVANCING, PROTESTERS PASSING BY WITH HANDS UP RIOT POLICE IN LINE
- Embargoed: 30th October 2019 20:03
- Keywords: Catalonia Catalan crisis Spain independence separatist leaders sentence CDR riot police
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B1CKNK7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Catalan pro-independence demonstrators clashed with riot police in the centre of Barcelona on Wednesday (October 16) in a third day of protests over Monday's imprisonment of nine leaders of a failed secession bid.
Police fired foam bullets as protesters set fire to bins near the interior department of the regional government in Barcelona.
Separatist protesters also move pot plants to form barricades against riot police.
The conviction of the nine Catalan leaders to nine to 13 years in prison on Monday (October 14) triggered violent protests where some demonstrators over two days have cut off access to Barcelona's airport, blocked roads and rail tracks and set rubbish containers alight as they clashed with police.
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