- Title: Catalan pro-independence demonstrators and riot police clash in Barcelona
- Date: 16th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 15, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS CHANTING RIOT POLICE WATCHING ON RIOT POLICE CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS PROTESTERS SHINING LASER BEAM AT RIOT POLICE RIOT POLICE OFFICER KICKING AWAY ITEM ON FIRE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING / RIOT POLICE WATCHING ON RIOT POLICE CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS / POLICE OFFICER TACKLING PROTESTER VARIOUS OF POLICE DRAGGING PROTESTERS AWAY PROTESTERS HOLDING TORCHES IN AIR / RIOT POLICE WATCHING ON PROTESTERS CHANTING AND BANGING BIN FIRE CRACKER EXPLODING NEAR RIOT POLICE VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE EXTINGUISHING FIRE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS FANNING FIRE RIOT POLICE CHARGING AT PROTESTERS / POLICE STEPPING OVER FIRE VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS PROTESTER MOVING BIN INTO FIRE PROTESTER BLOCKING RIOT POLICE WITH BARRICADE PROTESTER DROPPING CARDBOARD INTO FIRE VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE NEAR FIRE PROTESTER MOVING BIN INTO FIRE VARIOUS OF FIRE POLICE VEHICLES APPROACHING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MOVING BARRICADES VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY SERVICES APPROACHING FIRE-FIGHTERS AT SCENE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE STANDING NEAR FIRE VARIOUS OF FIRE-FIGHTERS EXTINGUISHING FIRE
- Embargoed: 30th October 2019 03:31
- Keywords: Barcelona Spain Catalan s
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B1CJKUF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Clashes between protesters and police erupted late on Tuesday (October 15) in Barcelona, in a second day of rallies against the jailing of nine Catalan separatists by the Supreme Court over their role in a failed bid to break away from Spain in 2017.
In unusually tense confrontations, protesters threw cans, stones and flares at riot police, and set garbage containers and cardboard on fire in the middle of several central Barcelona streets, including a thoroughfare housing designer stores and the local stock exchange, according to Reuters witnesses.
Fences were on fire next to La Pedrera, one of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi's most famous buildings and one of the city's main tourist attractions.
Police charged several times through the crowd with batons. A spokesman for the regional Mossos police said they were trying to make space around the local headquarters of the Spanish government. Four people were detained, the spokesman said.
Reuters reporters saw police fire foam projectiles at the protesters. They also witnessed Spanish national police firing blanks in the air from rubber bullet guns. Police could not immediately be reached for comment.
Catalan government spokeswoman Meritxell Budo, speaking on Spanish national broadcaster TVE said separatists have proven they are peaceful and only an isolated group behaved violently, sullying their reputation.
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