The Mossos d'Esquadra did not foresee the high degree of violence in the protests over the restrictions in Barcelona

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After the incidents recorded last night in Barcelona, ​​those responsible for the Mossos d'Esquadra acknowledge that they will have to review their devices in the face of future protests against the measures that the

and the

have decreed to stop the growth of coronavirus infections.

The Catalan police detained at least 14 people - two of them minors - during the altercations that occurred after a rally in Plaça Sant Jaume against the new restrictions.

The riots ended with 30 minor injuries (23 police officers and seven protesters), several damages to street furniture and police vehicles and the looting of at least two commercial establishments.

In an interview on 324 (the 24-hour channel of TV3), the Mossos commissioner

explained that in the protests there were "radical groups, some of which were linked to the extreme right," as well as people who are part of economic sectors affected by the new measures against Covid.

"We had suspicions that there could be a more radical group of people, but in no case had we foreseen the violence they exerted," he acknowledged.

The police officer has also said that the agents carried out searches of the people who attended the concentration, which allowed "to detect flares, firecrackers, glass bottles and paint."

Around a thousand people had gathered peacefully at the beginning of the afternoon in Plaça Sant Jaume, but later about a hundred protesters started the altercations, in which several dozen containers were burned and barricades were formed in the center of the city.

The general director of the Mossos,

, who attributes what happened to the convergence of "very violent groups with a strong presence of the extreme right", has recognized today, in an interview in Rac1, that they will have to review the police devices before the call for new protests.

On the other hand, the

has ordered the cleaning of the graffiti made by a group of protesters with neo-Nazi slogans and symbols this morning.

The councilor for Citizenship Rights and Participation,

, has advanced that the City Council will report the facts to the Prosecutor's Office for Hate Crimes.

Here is the trace of the presence of neo-Nazi groups to the dahir protests.

Hem ordered to netejar-ho immediately and to report to Fiscalia Delictes dOdi.

Tot the recolzament to the comunitats Thursdays of the Nostra ciutat.

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Marc Serra Solé (@MarcSerraSole) October 31, 2020

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