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20. 74 arrests and tear gas used for the first time in 16 years in Barcelona

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 10:35 AM

Mar 2012

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_34206.shtml

The disturbances seen in Barcelona during the General Strike on Thursday left 74 arrests and half a million € worth of damage. 48 police were injured and another four people are in hospital, two of them seriously hurt as a consequence of the police charges and rioting.

It’s now known that four of the arrests are underage, and another eight are foreigners.

The Mossos d’Esquadra used tear gas for the first time in 16 years, and the Catalan Government spoke of ‘urban guerrillas’ with ‘criminal instinct’.

The Ministry for the Interior says it prioritise action against the rioters, and consider that some 300 regular rioters used the day for their own purposes. The warn about their better organisation and the increase in violence seen.

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