Clashes in Barcelona after the demonstration for the house, windows shattered

Clashes and acts of vandalism in Barcelona, ​​at the end of the demonstrations for the general strike in Spain. The main procession, which passed through the city center along Paseo de Gracia to Via Laietana, brought together at least 55 thousand people, according to the city police, and took place peacefully. The incidents only began at the end of the march, when a group of hooded youths targeted several shops between Paseo de Gracia and Gran Via, near Plaza Catalunya, shattering windows and setting bins on fire, reports the Efe agency.

In several cases, the protection panels installed by the operators were torn down and set on fire. The Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police, set up a cordon of riot police to isolate the area and exploded tear gas to disperse those responsible for the riots. Some of the demonstrators, broadcast live by the public broadcaster TVE, threw fireworks and flares at the police. "Neither violence nor vandalism represents the people who protested today peacefully throughout the day in Barcelona," wrote the president of the generalitat, Salvador Illa, in a message on