• Direct witness. And Tsunami Democràtic admitted the failure
  • Violent Crowd fight between Boixos Nois and independentistas
  • The match: the impotence classic

Hours before the classic, those who had it clearer were the CDRs, when they remembered through social networks that "the most important game is played in the streets." And it is what happened. While inside the stadium the players practiced football, in the vicinity of the stadium the violent ones also returned to their particular game of using containers and road signs as barricades and burning them before the arrival of the Mossos d'Esquadra. This time the serious incidents in Barcelona and other Catalan capitals after hearing the ruling of the Supreme Court happened at the same time as Barça-Madrid and caused the smell of burned trash to sneak into the stadium.

And that the security measures of the Mossos were well visible from the first hour, guaranteeing the arrival of the players of the two teams to the concentration hotel and then to the field. Even the most remarkable incident in those hours occurred far from there, specifically at the home of Barça defender Nelson Semedo, in which they entered to steal while he was with the team. About four o'clock in the afternoon the call for the Democratic Tsunami began in four points around the stadium, to which several independentist groups, such as the CDR, joined. Thousands of protesters began with the classic demands of all sovereignist protests, from the freedom of prisoners convicted of sedition to asking the State to sit down and discuss the self-determination of Catalonia. Meanwhile, banners were distributed from the Tsunami Democràtic with the intention of putting them inside the field to show them during the match. Some private guards from the club did not let them in and requisitioned them, just like Leo Messi's masks for security reasons, since they did not want to allow anyone to use them for violent (and anonymous) action.

A strong police device guarded the accesses to the stadium when the doors opened, and thousands of spectators had to queue for access, as thorough searches were conducted. That did not prevent the entry of plastic balls that were thrown on some occasions, although only 20 arrived at the lawn. The entrance to the field coincided with the incidents.

The first slight, such as the cut of Avenida Diagonal and some streets near the stadium. A vehicle did not stop at the concentration and the protesters surrounded him and forced him to stop, took his keys and punctured his wheels. Shortly before the game, the Mossos intervened in a fight between a group of 30 radical followers of Barça and independentistas near one of the entrances of the stadium. They had to establish a police cordon and, from there, during the game, the violent summoned by the Tsunami began with the launch of objects, attempts to avoid closing one of the accesses to the stadium and using urban furniture, such as containers, to perform barricades that later burned. From there began police charges before the launch of bottles and cans. The Mossos arrested nine people and 46 minor injuries were counted before calming the situation to allow the spectators to leave. Taking advantage of the noise, a clever tried to steal a luxury watch ... and was also arrested. "You can exercise democratic and peaceful protest, and at the same time, play," Quim Torra predicted, without specifying whether it was the violent party.

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