- Title: Clashes erupt in Barcelona as Catalan separatists protest sentences for leaders
- Date: 16th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 15, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICERS GUARDING POLICE OFFICERS CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS PROTESTERS DURING DEMO VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICERS NEAR FIRE PROTESTERS TRYING TO BREAK THROUGH BARRICADE VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICERS CLASHING WITH PROTESTERS PROTESTER SHOUTING AT POLICE VARIOUS OF CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF POLICE OFFICERS DURING DEMO VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS LIGHTING FIRES PROTESTERS MOVING BIN CONTAINERS PROTESTERS MAKING A BARRICADE POLICE VAN DRIVING DOWN STREET FLAMES PROTEST IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS THROWING STONES AT POLICE VANS PROTESTERS CHASING AWAY POLICE VANS PROTESTERS THROWING BINS IN THE FIRE
- Embargoed: 30th October 2019 00:02
- Keywords: Separatist supporters block roads riot police jailing of separatist leaders Catalan separatist leaders conviction Spain Catalonia
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B17MURR
- 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.
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