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After the incidents of last Monday at the El Prat airport in response to the Supreme Court ruling against the leaders of the 'procés', the demonstrations were moved to the city center on Tuesday, with the headquarters of the Government Delegation as the objective main .

There they had summoned the independence organizations the end of the different marches that toured Barcelona from the first hour of the afternoon. From six o'clock, all the streets around the headquarters of the Delegation were cut and at seven o'clock , thousands of people already occupied all access to the shout of "for them, I heard" , a song that has changed sides in a matter of months

In the street Mallorca , one of the main roads, the moments of greatest tension were lived when the protesters tried to knock down the security fences after throwing bottles, eggs, firecrackers and flares against the Mossos d'Esquadra and the National Police . The songs were the same as always. You don't deserve the 'senyera' that you carry, dedicated to the Mossos. "Whore Spain, whore Police", dedicated to nationals. And "Buch resignation", dedicated to the Minister of Interior. Also that "you are nothing without the batons" or "why do you want the helmet, if you have no brain." And of course: "Outside the occupation forces", which also applies to the Mossos.

Within the security perimeter we were only journalists, protected as war correspondents in Baghdad and writing on the table of a pizzeria without pizzas, and the neighbors, trapped in a mousetrap, peeked through the crack of the portals as the gossips appear in the villages. "Aren't you afraid?" a lady asked the owner of a bar: "No, what we don't have is customers . "

At the door of the Bar Association there were also two lawyers commenting on the picture: "I don't know what they are complaining about with what they might have fallen." All this with the buzzing of the rumbling helicopters and the public address of the Mossos vans repeating in a loop: "The police are talking to them. Do not launch at the police line and keep the safety distance with the fences." To each message, rain of objects. To each message, one more step towards the fences. In the end, the fire, the flames in Barcelona.

The more the tension grew in the Eixample , the more messages from Òmnium and the ANC came through social networks celebrating the success of the call for what they call "peaceful sitting". In the real world they were, in addition to the peaceful seated (that there were), hundreds of children covered with hoods and scarves advancing towards the Police harangued by a massive countdown and a slogan: "Not a step back."

The day had started hours before with the cuts of roads and a march - yes peaceful - through the city. From the early afternoon several thousand students were summoned in the Plaza España to advance to the Delegation and cut off road traffic. The demonstration advanced almost silently, with the kids taking pictures for Instagram and turning each sitting into a bottle. "Let's empty the classrooms to fill the streets," said a sign.

On the Gran Vía de las Cortes Catalanas, a young man was trying to explain to the special envoy of a Romanian television how unfair the Supreme Court's sentence is compared to that of 'La Manada' or that of the "motherfucker of Tejero". Literal. I was trying to tell you in a somewhat macaroon English that what is happening in Spain is that we live in a "dictatorship" and that is why they did not go to class yesterday. The message was repeated at night in a city converted at times into a pitched battle . Another night of violence and police charges.

The high school students were the protagonists of the second day of the mobilizations for the Supreme Court ruling. Summoned by social networks and messaging groups, hundreds of protesters, again cut a dozen sections of road from the beginning of the morning , mainly in Girona, Mataró and the C-17 in Gurb, where they were more than four hours until they were evicted by the Mossos. In the early hours there were train track cuts in Girona and Mataró and then the protesters went to main arteries to cut them, such as the AP-7, which led to clashes with the drivers.

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