The violence that caused scenes of chaos in Barcelona on Friday night injured 182 people throughout Catalonia, announced Saturday morning relief services. Only in Barcelona, 152 people were injured, said relief.
The other wounded protesters were identified in particular in Girona, Tarragona and Lleida. In total, 83 people were arrested throughout the region following the violence, told AFP the Ministry of the Interior. In the center of the city, radical independence activists clashed with security forces on Friday night throwing stones or metal objects, while policemen responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Numerous fires were lit and barricades were raised in the streets on the fifth day of the mobilization against Monday's condemnation to heavy prison terms by pro-independence leaders for their role in the October 2017 secession attempt.
More than 500,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Barcelona
The city had already been the scene of urban guerrilla scenes every night since Monday. Before the start of Friday's clashes, more than 500,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Barcelona after a day marked by a general strike and the convergence of tens of thousands of separatists marched Wednesday from five cities in Catalonia.
Saturday morning, the AP7 motorway was also cut in the direction of France-Spain near the border because of an independence demonstration, according to the Catalan body monitoring traffic.