Posted on 02/20/2021 8:48:23 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A fifth night of peaceful protests to denounce the imprisonment of a Spanish rap artist once more devolved into clashes between police and the members of fringe groups who set up street barricades and smashed storefront windows Saturday night in downtown Barcelona.
Small groups made up mostly of young people began their nightly cat-and-mouse game with officers an hour after several thousand protesters gathered in the capital of Spain’s Catalonia region, which also was where the worst violence took place during earlier demonstrations this week over rapper Pablo Hasél’s detention.
Police were also pelted by rocks after a march in the Catalan town of Lleida, where Hasél spent 24 hours barricaded a university building before police took him away to serve a 9-month prison sentence for insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorist violence in his music.
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The mob worked its way up the street, smashing store front windows, toppling motorbikes, and mounting barricades with metal street barriers and burning trash containers to slow the police pursuit. Some even took the fight to police lines, forcing officers to use shields to protect them from hurled rocks. Police said that they had identified one “youth” for targeting a police helicopter with a laser for two hours.
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A Spanish Pantifa supporter. Hopefully, someone will throw him through a window.
They managed to avoid the word “riot” throughout the whole article. Good lapdog, heres a biscuit.
Meanwhile on Jan 6th...
SOP for totalitarian leftards.
The MSM expects us to trust them?
Who knows what is really going on over there?
I read the Spanish press, and anybody can tell what’s going on over there. The papers have been full of pictures of the flaming center of Barcelona and black-clad mobs attacking the police in Madrid for a week now.
Btw, these places are still supposed to be in “lockdown” for this Covid hysteria, but while that has crushed legitimate businesses, church and social life, as usual it doesn’t apply to “peaceful (hard left) protesters.”
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