- Images Barricades and cars on fire in the center of Barcelona
- Direct Witness.Outside the intelligence
Violence in Catalonia does not stop. The independence movement began filling the center of Barcelona with toilet paper this Tuesday afternoon in what looked like a peaceful protest and ended up setting fire to the streets, as it did the day before and starring in serious altercations. Dozens of containers burned in the center of Barcelona.
Convened by the CDRs, the protest began a couple of hours after the Interior Minister, Miquel Buch , unchecked the altercations of the previous night, which he described as "unwanted incidents" starring "agitating violent groups and provocateurs ». "In the face of new outbreaks of violence, the police will act," he said, supporting the action during the Mossos d'Esquadra riots.
The protesters, however, did not follow the slogan of lowering the tone that was thrown at them from the Government. At 9:30 p.m., hundreds of young people swirled around the burning barricades of Roger de Flor Street , where the Police had not come at that time, despite rumors of the existence of 10 burned cars. TV3 only confirmed five. The truth is that the vehicles burned near a gas station. And that the flames reached eight and nine meters . Several tourists were caught between the makeshift barricades. It didn't matter if the authorities neutralized them, they quickly rebuilt two or three meters away.
Nothing peaceful, do you see this peaceful?
"The night is hard," said a young, non-independentist sitting in the doorway of his father's shop, where he had come to try to protect her. "While I am here, I hope they don't set me on fire," he said, quite worried. "Peaceful nothing, do you see this peaceful?" He commented before giving a start scared by the stampede of young people fleeing at the rumor that he was coming from the Police. "Here is a barricade, there is another, there is another ..." , said a girl who went with her partner, pointing to the four cardinal points and trying to find a vanishing point that did not exist.
After the step back taken by the so-called Democratic Tsunami, who took the reins of the mobilization by directing the protests to paralyze the El Prat airport after knowing the convictions, the CDRs have taken over.
They are the so-called Defense Committees of the Republic, which emerged days before 1-O to help in the celebration of the referendum and that have been radicalized over time, who recruited protesters on Tuesday and chose the points where to concentrate them. In Barcelona they summoned at 7:00 p.m. at the intersection of Gran Vía with La Marina Street - where the old bullring of La Monumental is located - and invited attendees to bring toilet paper.
"We have a lot of shit to clean," read the poster, which had printed the image of a riot mosso brandishing the baton before a lady lying on the floor next to a broken umbrella. "Let them go!" They added, highlighted in capital letters. Because unlike 1-O, where the Mossos d'Esquadra were applauded for their passivity and permissiveness, the CDR has also declared war on the Catalan regional police.
«Let's not fall into the trap of those who want to demobilize us with the false arguments of violence. The only violence we have suffered in the last hours has been that of the Mossos d'Escuadra and the National Police, united to fiercely apply institutional violence, ”said CDR Catalonia in a statement issued yesterday first thing in the morning in which He denied that the independence protesters had used the violence and in which the resignation of the Interior Minister Miquel Buch was requested.
«We have started a path of no return. The shameful sentence of the prisoners has ignited the spigot and the violence of a family member has brought the flame ”, however, the press release that invited to venture another day of barricades and violence began. In the first two days 256 wounded were registered, 115 of them mossos and national police. And during the siege of the Prat airport, there was the death of a 62-year-old French citizen who was going to catch a flight to return to his country and suffered a heart attack.
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