- Title: Sixth night of unrest in Catalonia ends with police pull back
- Date: 20th October 2019
- Summary: BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 19, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTEST BY CATALAN SEPARATIST SEEN FROM TOP SHOT / SOUND COMING FROM POLICE VANS SAYING (Catalan) "ATTENTION, ATTENTION, POLICE SPEAKING TO YOU. PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR DISTANCE FROM THE POLICE LINE. IMMINENT POLICE INTERVENTION" VARIOUS OF PEOPLE THROWING STONES AND RUNNING MEMBERS OF CATALAN POLICE RUNNING WITH SHIELDS ON AND FIRING FOAM BULLETS POLICE WITH FOAM BULLET GUNS PEOPLE RUNNING VARIOUS OF POLICE LINE ADVANCING TWO MEMBERS OF RIOT POLICE FIRING FOAM BULLETS NEXT TO TRAFFIC LIGHT VARIOUS OF POLICE FIRING FOAM BULLETS PROTESTERS THROWING STONES POLICE FIRING FOAM BULLETS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS POLICE/PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF FIRECRACKERS HITTING THE GROUND PROTESTERS SITTING ON THE GROUND POLICE LINE WITH SHIELDS WALKING BACKWARDS POLICE LINE PROTEST IN PROGRESS/SOUND OF FIRECRACKERS POLICE LINE PROTESTERS YELLING AT POLICE PROTEST IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS POLICE LINE IN FRONT OF PROTESTERS PROTEST IN PROGRESS PROTEST IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DRAGGING PLANT POTS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS NEXT TO BURNING BARRICADES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING (Spanish) "POLICE TORTURES AND ASSASSINATES" PROTESTER MAKING OFFENSIVE GESTURE WITH MIDDLE FINGERS VARIOUS OF POLICE LINES FIRING FOAM BULLETS POLICE WITH SHIELDS NEXT TO POLICE VANS PROTESTERS /WHITE SMOKE SEEN ON BACKGROUND PROTESTERS THROWING STONES POLICE FIRING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS THROWING STONES VARIOUS OF PRO-UNITY MAN FIGHTING WITH PRO-INDEPENDENCE PROTESTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED PRO-UNITY PROTESTER, SAYING: "I am a nationalist, I am Spanish, I am from Alicante and I am Catalan because I work here and I live here. Those over there (protesters) I don't know. I suppose they are Catalans. There are people from all nationalities, but I really don't know what they want. The only thing they are achieving right now is to bother us, to destroy public furniture and, in my opinion, they are offending me. As a Spaniard I feel offended that they are bothered by anything coming from Spanish people." PROTESTERS HOLDING UP THEIR MOBILE PHONES WITH FLASH LIT UP BARCELONA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 20, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE VANS STARTING TO LEAVE PEOPLE SHOUTING (Spanish) "PEOPLE UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED" VARIOUS OF POLICE VANS DRIVING AWAY FROM PROTESTS PEOPLE CELEBRATING AS POLICE VANS DRIVE AWAY AND SHOUTING (Catalan): "INDEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE" PEOPLE DANCING AND SINGING (Catalan): "We won, we won" CROWD JUMPING PEOPLE SHOUTING (Catalan): "FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS"
- Embargoed: 3rd November 2019 02:43
- Keywords: Spain Catalonia catalan separatists pro-independence riot police catalan protests police clashes
- Location: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- City: BARCELONA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001B1RJFIF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Catalan protesters clashed with police on Saturday (October 19) on the sixth day of protests against the jailing of Catalan separatist leaders which has caused a wave of violence in the region.
Heavy police presence was seen at a series of demonstrations in the Catalan capital which lasted late into the night. The majority remained peaceful, with protesters staging a sit-down and shining lights from their phones. Others turned violent with fires and clashes between protesters and riot police.
The sixth night of unrest ended with the police pulling back and protesters chanting slogans like "We won" and celebrating the police's departure.
Barcelona saw its worst night of disturbances in decades on Friday (October 18) as masked youths blocked roads with blazing garbage bins and hurled rocks at security forces, who responded by firing repeated rounds of smoke grenades and tear gas.
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