A fierce battle in Barcelona makes dozens of injured and detained during another night of protests

A few minutes before the end of the deconcentration, the national police started moving forward and pushing.

The entire area was fenced and the crowd of several hundred thousand protesters was stuck against each other. Therefore, when the police started pushing with his shields, there were falls, screams and fear of an avalanche.

In the midst of this chaos, a group of hooded youth began shooting down fences and throwing them, as well as stones, at the security forces that sealed the corner of the street. Walk of Grace and the street Mallorca, a few blocks from the headquarters of the central Spanish government.

Police responded with sticks and rubber bullets, further aggravating the confrontation.

In just half an hour, the Walk of Grace It had become a pandemonium, with four or five barricades and garbage cans on fire.

Live television footage of the Catalan capital showed moments of intense tension between police officers and protesters very close to each other.

According to the newspaper La Vanguardia, the departments of Mossos of Esquadra, the Catalan police, acted to disperse the most violent groups, such as those who acted in the Eixample, a central district of the city, and they used force on the famous Paseo de Gracia, where the firefighters also intervened to extinguish the fires lit by the demonstrators.

Even several ambulances arrived at the scene to help the wounded. The fights also took place in Tarragona. "We will again exercise our right to self-determination," threatened the President of the Republic. State of the Generalitat of Catalunya, Quim Torra.

Most of the protesters agreed to leave, although some groups remained and restarted isolated clashes with the security forces.

By nightfall, the region was still dominated by more than 30 police trucks and, according to El Mundo newspaper, at least three protesters were arrested.

Catalonia, and Barcelona in particular, has been at the center of one of the most important institutional and political conflicts in Spain in recent years.

However, the city had not experienced moments of repression and confrontation as strong as today, especially at the hands of the national police and not the local security forces.

The last time that a similar situation was experienced and such a clear confrontation with the national security forces took place during the general strike against the Zapatero government, 11 years ago.