SPAIN: Demonstration turns to sit-in as anti-austerity protesters remain on Madrid streets following clashes and scuffles
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702357
SPAIN: Demonstration turns to sit-in as anti-austerity protesters remain on Madrid streets following clashes and scuffles
- Title: SPAIN: Demonstration turns to sit-in as anti-austerity protesters remain on Madrid streets following clashes and scuffles
- Date: 30th September 2012
- Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (SEPTEMBER 29, 2012) (REUTERS) RIOT POLICE ADVANCING THROUGH NARROW SIDE STREET AS OBJECTS ARE THROWN AT THEM RIOT POLICE TALKING DEMONSTRATORS BEHIND RUBBISH BIN BARRICADE AND RIOT POLICE DEMONSTRATOR TALKING WITH POLICE DEMONSTRATORS SEATED ON GROUND BY POLICE BARRIER CHANTING TO POLICE "JOIN US" POLICE WITH PROTESTERS IN BACKGROUND RIOT POLICE PROTESTERS SEATED / POLICE POLICE DIRECTING PEOPLE ON STREET DEMONSTRATOR TALKING TO POLICE POLICE VANS LEAVING DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING "WE WILL BE BACK TOMORROW" POLICE VANS LEAVING CLEAR-UP VANS AND WORKERS DISPERSING RUBBISH WITH BLOWERS
- Embargoed: 15th October 2012 13:00
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- Location: Spain
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVABVOROAW6T35KPO8XIPVHDRWZA
- Story Text: Following clashes between police and protesters in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday (September 29) a sit-in was staged and demonstrators urged the riot squad to join them.
Protesters took shelter behind a barricade consisting of rubbish bins after the clashes in which demonstrators had been struck with batons.
As those remaining from the day's protesters dispersed they chanted "we will be back tomorrow."
Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday in Madrid's Neptune plaza, between the Prado Museum and Parliament, for a third time this week to vent anger at politicians they accuse of pillaging the welfare state to bail out badly-run banks.
Unemployment in Spain is more than double the European Union average, with half of all working-age under-26s unable to find jobs and shattered businesses laying off employees they cannot afford to pay.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has delayed any plea for aid, which would kick-start a European Central Bank plan to buy debt and ease financing costs, though this week has passed reforms and the budget plan in what many see is an effort to pre-empt the likely terms of a bailout.
Public workers have seen their salaries slashed, taxes have increased and the health and education sectors have experienced cutbacks. A labour reform law has also made it easier to sack workers and the retirement age has gone up. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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