- Title: Police clash with separatist protesters during Catalonia strike
- Date: 18th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 18, 2019) (REUTERS) RIOT POLICE OFFICERS LINED UP, RIOT POLICE VANS, GARBAGE CONTAINER ENGULFED BY FLAMES RIOT POLICE ADVANCING TOWARDS PROTESTERS AND SHOOTING RUBBER BULLETS, PROTESTING RUNNING AWAY FROM POLICE RIOT POLICE VANS DRIVING DOWN THE STREET, PROTESTERS GETTING OUT OF THE WAY, PROTESTER TRYING TO STOP RIOT POLICE VAN, DEMONSTRATORS THROWING OBJECTS TO RIOT POLICE VANS, PROTESTER THROWING FIRE CRACKER, JOURNALISTS FILMING PROTESTERS MOVING A GARBAGE CONTAINER, RIOT POLICE ADVANCING AND PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY, RIOT POLICE MOVING BACK THE CONTAINER RIOT POLICE VANS DRIVING, PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY, DEMONSTRATOR BEING SHOT BY UNIDENTIFIED PROJECTILE RIOT POLICE LINE, JOURNALISTS BEHIND POLICE PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS TO RIOT POLICE VANS, VANS LEAVING RIOT POLICE LINE IN FRONT OF DOZENS OF PROTESTERS MORE RIOT POLICE ADVANCING TO RIOT POLICE LINE RIOT POLICE VAN, PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS TO RIOT POLICE, GARBAGE CONTAINER ENGULFED BY FLAMES
- Embargoed: 1st November 2019 16:51
- Keywords: clashes with police independence pro-independence protesters separatist flags riot police riot police clashes
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B1MLW7B
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Few hundred masked youths clashed with Spanish police in the heart of the city on Friday (October 18), blocking a broad boulevard with burning garbage bins and hurling rocks at the security forces.
Bystanders fled to the safety of shop doorways as police vans tried and failed to clear the road and police in full riot gear fired smoke grenades towards the rioters.
Roads leading into the city were packed as marchers from across the region joined a mass rally against this week's verdict by Spain's Supreme Court, which sentenced nine separatists to jail over a failed, 2017 secessionist bid.
The ruling set off the worst sustained street violence Spain has seen in decades, with anger running high in Catalonia. Unions in the wealthy region called for a general strike on Friday and students boycotted classes for a third day running.
Police estimated some 525,000 people joined the marches.
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