New clashes against police in Barcelona | Chronic

Tension rose Thursday, a new milestone in Catalonia on the fourth day of consecutive protests against the convictions handed down to the leaders of the unsuccessful secession process of 2017, after further riots at the end of the concentration of independence to Barcelona and the brutal aggression of a group of the far right. For a young anti-fascist.

In the midst of a climate of fervor, the Catalan president, Quim Torra, proposed a new referendum of self-determination without agreement with the Spanish executive, which did not serve to calm the minds nor to deepen the long-standing crisis in the coalition government.

Despite the many calls for calm and serenity that followed the whole day, after the fierce battle that took place on Wednesday night between extremist protesters and police in the example of Barcelona, ​​the riots did not stop.

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Protesters who declared themselves anti-fascist and independentist again barricaded themselves and clashed with the police, this time on the central Rambla of Catalonia, on the left. Example, at the end of the rally that gathered some 13,000 people convened by the Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR), groups to which the authorities attribute the magnitude of violence in the northern region.

Contrary to previous days, clashes with the police began when the agents tried to avoid a clash between radical independence and ultra-right independence, some of which ended up beating and throwing bottles.

In addition, a 23 – year – old man was brutally assaulted with baseball bats and baseball bats by a group of about ten extreme right – wing attacks, whose images were recorded and broadcast on social networks.

Right-wing extremists concentrated on Plaza Artós, in the district of Sarría, where anti-fascist militants were also going to repudiate them, without facing them because of a strong police presence.

However, after the rally, the ultras went to the scene of the CDR demonstration in search of a clash.

Some 200 young anti-fascists who participated in the concentration of the CDR and who had information about the far-right movements, met him on Rambla Catalunya, armed with irons and sticks.

At the cry of "Anti-fascist Catalonia" e "Independence", the protesters reached the ultra-rightists, who were in the minority and withdrew by throwing objects.

The police intervened to prevent the clashes between the two groups from going further, but ended up being involved in new clashes with antifascists and separatists, who were expanding their barricades and burning down the containers and chairs of the region's bars. . consecutive violent riots.

As the clashes erupted, which became virulent over the hours, Torra offered an interview to the Catalan TV3 public channel in which he repeated that "violence does not represent the independence movement " and asked "always follow the path of civility ".

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Torra also insisted on the proposal he made on Thursday in the Catalan Parliament to return to hold a unilateral referendum.

"I see people filling the squares and streets of Catalonia, we want to exercise again the right to self-determination.That will be the fight, there is no other scenario. ", said the secessionist leader on the eve of "strike" summoned by the independence movement, which threatens to sow chaos Friday in Barcelona.

The Spanish government of the Socialist Pedro Sanchez pointed out this Thursday there will be "impunity" for those responsible for crimes of public order in Catalonia, fifty reports of disturbances were reported during the first three days of the demonstrations.

He also insisted that he would act strongly against the escalation of the Catalan crisis, depending on the decisions taken by the regional government, and not by statements such as the proposal for a new referendum launched by Torra to his guests in order to calm them