About 25 thousand students and schoolchildren took part in a protest rally on Thursday in Barcelona, said the city guard (police of the Catalan capital).
On Thursday in a number of cities of the Autonomous community rallies are held-the strike was announced by the Union of students of Catalan countries.
Many of the participants of the action, held in Barcelona, minors. Their demand is to overturn the Supreme court’s verdict on 12 Catalan politicians involved in holding an illegal independence referendum in 2017.
“We want the world to know that we do not agree with the verdict of the Supreme court, nor with everything that has happened recently”, – Emma, who is only 15 years old and still in school, told RIA Novosti.
On the way to the building of the national police office, young people shouted slogans in support of independence, as well as insults against the Catalan law enforcement agencies Mossos de Escuadra and the Spanish police, whom they accuse of using excessive force in the dispersal of the actions. In the course of protests in various cities since the beginning of the week, radicals threw bottles, cans, stones at the police, set barricades and set fire to them, in Barcelona on Thursday night, several cars burned down. 500 people, including 200 law enforcement officials, have been injured in clashes in Catalonia since the beginning of the week. Dozens of people were detained.
Student actions also take place in Girona, Lleida, Tarragona.
Blocking of roads continues. Some of them were blocked due to the so-called “Freedom March”: columns of protesters were sent to Barcelona from five different cities of the autonomous community. They left on Wednesday and are due to arrive in the Catalan capital on Friday, the day of the general strike.