• Clashes, barricades and fires in Barcelona. Over half a million in the square
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19 October 2019 "No form of violence represents us and represents the exercise of democracy and freedom", said the president of Catalonia Quim Torra, stressing however that "the cause of freedom is unstoppable and we will go as far as the people of Catalonia will want to go ". Torra, from the headquarters of the Generalitat after the Barcelona demonstration, then urged Prime Minister Sanchez "because you set a day and an hour to open a negotiating table without conditions". According to El Pais.



Meanwhile, Barcelona is dealing with the violence that occurred in the protests on Friday, which throughout Catalonia counted 180 wounded, and is preparing for a Saturday of independence demonstrations. There is the fear of new clashes in the protests scheduled for Saturday night, in the demonstration "against repression" called for by 6 pm by Arran, a youth organization of the radical Catalan independent left, which calls for the resignation of the Regional Minister of the Interior. Meanwhile, on the Via Laietana, circulation has resumed, according to local media.
In Barcelona alone, 152 people needed hospital care, after hours of clashes with police who used hydrants, tear gas and rubber bullets. Other wounded were registered in Girona, Tarragona and Lleida. There were 83 people stopped in all of Catalonia, the Interior Ministry informed. On Friday, 525,000 people took part in the peaceful demonstration in Barcelona, ​​while thousands more took part in five Catalan cities.