Injured and arrested in the demonstration of independence – News

Hundreds of protesters gathered Monday afternoon at El Prat International Airport in Barcelona, ​​to block some of the main infrastructure of northern Catalonia, a tourist region, in reaction to the sentence sentencing 13 years of imprisonment leaders of the failed secession process of 2017.

Shout "Prisoner political freedoms!", "Independence!" or "Out of the forces of occupation", protesters, mostly young, demonstrate sitting in front of a police cordon located in Terminal 1 of the international airport and crossed by thousands of passengers from around the world every day.

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Terminal 1. Barcelona Airport. 14/10/2019. 5:35 p.m. pic.twitter.com/U9OU3hmD6O

– Elise Gazengel (@EliseGaz) October 14, 2019

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Riot police intervened in a timely action to prevent, by pushing and beating, a group of people overcoming a police line installed between the metro and terminal access, according to broadcast images on social networks.

The Mossos of Esquadra (the Catalan police) are responsible for the operation. They are therefore reprimanded by the demonstrators, who accuse them of being traitors.

The protest action, called by the Tsunami democratic platform, causes some flight delays because of the difficulties of access from the airport and passengers at the airport armored by the police .

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To clarify doubts: first video already published with a shot at the waist. The one I publish now in this tweet is from the coup club that corresponds to the photo that made me @jordiborras pic.twitter.com/8ax6pEGSz4

– Elise Gazengel (@EliseGaz) October 14, 2019

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Due to the protest, traffic jams occurred and the train and metro lines arriving at the airport were momentarily interrupted. Some passengers made the last journey on foot to reach the terminal.

The protesters also occupied the tracks of the high-speed train (AVE) linking Barcelona to Figueras, as well as that linking the Catalan capital to Girona and other regional rail lines.

At 20 hours local (15 in Argentina), the National Assembly of Catalonia (ANC), whose leader, Jordi Sánchez, was sentenced to 9 years in prison, organized rallies in all places of Catalonia for protest against an "unfair" conviction. they consider a "flagrant violation of rights".

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?? The headquarters of Catalonia @policia from Vía Laietana to #Barcelone besieged by the CDR …

We are concerned about the situation of our colleagues in # UIP who are deployed to protect it, who protects those who protect us?

You have our support.#EquipementYa pic.twitter.com/OANrdYJgRS

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The civic organization Ómnium Cultural has also called to protest against the conviction of its leader, Jordi Cuixart, to 9 years in prison. "The best answer to punishment, recidivism," said its current president, Marcel Mauri, who asked to settle on the squares and at the airport.

University students were the first to mobilize, a few minutes after the publication of the historic judgment, which sentenced independent political and social leaders to prison terms of up to 13 years in prison for sedition. , the maximum sentence inflicted on the former Catalan vice president, Oriol Junqueras.

Columns of young people cut traffic in Barcelona's main thoroughfares, at the height of the university district, on Diagonal Avenue, and other central points such as the Augusta Vía, the Gran Vía and Laietana Vía, until Plaza Cataluña. in the heart of the city, where about 8,000 people gathered, according to police data.

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In UAB, the Marxes per ilibertat do not see anything new.
No more than 300 April 2016, more than 300 students of UAB Baixàvem in the columns in Parliament in protest 3 + 2.
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The Independent Student Union of Catalan Countries (SEPC) has called for permanent "mass disobedience", according to a statement posted on social networks.

"We will only get the national liberation from the street," they say. "We are determined to make students, again, the spearhead of popular independence," they added.