Fierce clashes in Barcelona as pro-independence demonstrators & police face off (VIDEOS)
Around 10,000 people swarmed the streets of Barcelona, the capital of Spain’s autonomous region, on Saturday, in a pro-independence protest called by the CDR (Committees for the Defense of the Republic).
The demonstrators set off to march towards the National Police headquarters, but were met by hundreds of police in full riot gear. The protest, which began around 7:30pm local time, quickly turned violent as demonstrators began hurling objects such as eggs, plastic balls, and rocks at police armed with batons and shields.
As tensions flared up, the Catalan Autonomous Police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, moved to disperse the crowd in Vía Laietana, a major thoroughfare popular with tourists where the national police HQ is located.
Footage from the scene shows several riot vans cutting through the crowd to the loud boos of demonstrators, in what some pro-independence activists denounced as a provocation by law enforcement.
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