• Riots: Separatism for Catalonia and threatens to consummate secession in the street
  • Violence: The political strike ends with serious riots in Barcelona and intensifies the confrontation with the Police
  • Images: Strike and chaos in Catalonia

The strike day promoted by independence this Friday concluded with the most dramatic episodes of violence of the week. The Urquinaona Square became the epicenter of the most absolute chaos, with barricades erected by the radicals, who returned to throw incendiary devices, pavers and heavy metal pieces against law enforcement officers.

The balance is 182 wounded and 54 arrests - reporters included -, with images as shocking as the riot police of the National Police evacuating an unconscious companion from the area due to the impact of a stone on the head between columns of fire and smoke .

The Mossos d'Esquadra made use of the tank equipped with a water cannon for the first time to contain the most violent outbreaks and make their way between burned containers and fenced trenches as a trench to access the police vans.

10.45 hours

Our partner Ana María Ortiz is in the 'zero zone' of the riots, where Inés Arrimadas has gone to assess the damage. The neighbors recriminate to the spokeswoman for Citizens that all politicians are responsible, "all, on either side."

10.30 am

The cuts on the border with France continue after 28 hours of protests . According to the Servei Català de Trànsit, the AP-7 continues to be cut between kilometer 0 and 3, with ten kilometers of retentions in the town of Voló.

Throughout the night, about 50 people from the CDR have kept the highway cut with log and stone barricades , EFE says.

10.20 hours

Acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska will hold a meeting this morning at CECOR with the police officers in charge of the police operation in Catalonia, together with the Interior Minister, Miquel Buch .

Subsequently, he will go to the Government Delegation in Catalonia, where he will attend the media from 1:00 pm, and then visit the Superior Police Headquarters of Barcelona and the injured agents, reports Marisol Hernández

10.15 hours

Except for the AP-7 road that has been cut at kilometer 0 on the border of Jonquera , Girona, in the south direction, there have been no more cuts on the Catalan motorways.

10.10 hours

Cleaning services have to be used thoroughly after the intense night lived in Barcelona. The CaixaBank office in Méndez Núñez with Sant Pere was literally assaulted: they removed all the furniture and burned it out. There were 11 jobs. They just took away the calcined remains, Ana María Ortiz tells us.

10.00 hours

The Cabinet monitoring the mobilizations , chaired by the president of Catalonia, Quim Torra, in the Palace of the Generalitat, still remains together. A first assessment of the crisis was expected at ten ..

9.50 hours

Four trucks of the Mossos arrive at Sants in Barcelona, ​​testifies Javier Cid . The station is divided and the accesses completely controlled by the National Police, adds Ángela Martialay .

The metro stop of Terminal 1 of the El Prat Airport of the L9 Sud line has been closed during the first hours of this Saturday at the request of the Mossos d'Esquadra, which authorized the reopening towards 09.20 hours.

Users who wanted to reach T1 have had to get off at the previous stop, corresponding to Terminal 2, and from there use shuttles to the other terminal, says EFE.

9.45 hours

The day dawned with the data provided by Mossos of 89 injured, now updated by the Catalan Emergency System: 182 . Of the people who were injured in the Catalan capital, 50 had to be transferred to a health center , while 102 were treated and discharged at the scene of the incidents.

As for the rest of the Catalan capitals, in Gerona 12 people required medical assistance , of which 3 had to be transferred, in Tarragona 7 people were injured, with two transfers, while in Lérida 6 people suffered injuries , 3 of which They were transferred to a health center, says EFE.

9.30 am

Bilbao and Valencia were also scenes of violent clashes outside Catalonia . The six arrested in the afternoon of this Friday in Bilbao during the protests have been released with the obligation to appear before the judicial authority when required, reports Europa Press.

9.15 hours

The CDR again ask for more troops to join the independence struggle. In this tweet they focus on the border with France.

9.00 a.m.

The Mossos have made public through social networks what was the fifth day of protests for the body after the sentence of 'procés'.

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