- Title: Thousands of Catalan separatists demonstrate in third day of protests
- Date: 16th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 16, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING BEFORE THE PROTEST MAN CARRYING A BIKE ABOVE THE PEOPLE GATHERED, MAN WITH A PLASTIC BALLOT BOX LIKE THE ONES USED IN THE BANNED CATALAN REFERENDUM PROTESTERS WITH SEPARATIST FLAGS, DEMONSTRATORS SITTING ON THE GROUND, PRESS PASSING THROUGH PEOPLE IN THE STREETS, SAGRADA FAMILIA CHURCH IN THE BACKGROUND SAGRADA FAMILIA SEPARATIST FLAGS WAVING, SAGRADA FAMILIA IN THE BACKGROUND MAN CARRYING A TOILET PAPER PACK ABOVE THE PEOPLE PROTESTERS IN THE STREET, SEPARATIST FLAGS SEPARATIST FLAG WAVING SIGN READING (in English) "SHAME" and (in Catalan) "WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW IS THAT AT OUR HOME JORDIS ALWAYS WIN" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH SEPARATIST FLAGS SEPARATIST FLAGS, FLAG READING (in English) "FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS", SAGRADA FAMILIA IN THE BACKGROUND PROTESTERS SEPARATIST FLAG WAVING DEMONSTRATORS GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED SAGRADA FAMILIA PROTESTERS IN THE STREET JOURNALIST SPEAKING TO CAMERA, PEOPLE WITH SEPARATIST FLAGS AND REPUBLICAN FLAG MAN SHOWING BASQUE FLAG VARIOUS OF GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS, SEPARATIST FLAGS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SHOWING SIGNS (in Catalan) "IT'S IN THE STREETS WHERE PEOPLE DEFEND THEMSELVES" MAN CARRYING A PLASTIC BALLOT BOX PROTESTERS THROWING TOILET PAPERS, PEOPLE TAKING PICTURES AND VIDEO WITH MOBILE PHONES
- Embargoed: 30th October 2019 18:04
- 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: LVA001B1CKL6V
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Thousands of demonstrators gathered in central Barcelona on Wednesday (October 16) in the third day of protests against Spain's Supreme Court verdict that sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between 9 and 13 years in prison over their role in the region's 2017 failed bid for independence.
Member's of Catalonia's Committees for the Defence of the Republic, known as CDR, had called a protest near the Barcelona's port, with the emblematic Sagrada Familia Church in the background.
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.
On Wednesday protesters carried separatist flags and even plastic ballot boxes, like the ones used in the illegal referendum in 2017, as the demonstration went on peacefully.
People tossed rolls of toilet paper into the air during the demonstration against the sentence.
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