Spanish demonstrators wearing high-viz vests replicated the Gilet-Jaunes protests which swept through France and Belgium earlier this month. Around 30 police officers were injured during the violent clashes as 11 protesters who let off flares and burned an image of the Spanish King Felipe VI were arrested. Officers dragged masked Catalonian protesters from Barcelona roads on Friday who were angry with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holding his weekly cabinet meeting in a building in the middle of the city.
Catalonians have held tight to their dreams of independence despite Madrid repeatedly clamping down on the region’s attempts to break away from Spain.
Demonstrators hurled smoke bombs at Mossos police officers with one thug recorded attacking a police van with a steel pole.
Another masked yob was photographed preparing to launch a missile towards police lines.
Catalan independence group Defense Committee of the Republic (CDR) erected burning barricades along the main road into Tarragona ahead of Mr Sanchez’s meeting.
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In October 2017, Carles Puigdemont’s pro-independence Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català (PDeCAT) authorised a referendum in which 90 percent of voters chose to break away from the central Madrid Government.
After snap regional elections were held in December 2017 it took several intense months for Catalan nationalists to get a new cabinet approved by the regional parliament and go past the Capital’s moves to block any candidate in self-imposed exile – like Mr Puigdemont – or in prison.
Madrid sacked the Catalan president and dissolved its parliament just hours after the wealthy region unilaterally declared independence following the ballot.
Catalan officials say more than 1,000 people were injured in October’s referendum as protestors and would-be voters clashed with police.
Heavily armed officers from the Spanish national civil guard were deployed to the region to close polling stations and seize ballot boxes.
After the violence on polling day, Mr Puigdemont pleaded with EU bosses to act as mediators in secession talks between Catalonia and Madrid.
He argued he was simply implementing the will of the people and wanted a dialogue with Mr Rajoy to ensure a smooth transition to independence.
But his repeated requests to Brussels fell on deaf ears, with European chiefs condemning the violence but saying the crisis was “a domestic matter for Spain”.