Catalan protests: Roads and train lines blocked in Barcelona

  01 October 2018    Read: 1399
Catalan protests: Roads and train lines blocked in Barcelona

Pro-independent protesters are blocking major motorways, train lines and avenues across the Catalonia, one year after a banned referendum crushed was crushed by Spanish police.

Monday's protests have been called on online messaging apps by the Committees for the Defence of the Republic, local activist groups that emerged after the  unauthorised vote on 1 October 2017. 

In Girona, north of Barcelona, hundreds of activists occupied the high-speed railway tracks, while regional police tried to stop more protesters from entering the area of the station. 

Local media also reported road blockages on the AP-7 highway, the main artery along eastern Catalonia leading to the French border, and in central streets of the cities of Lleida and Barcelona, the regional capital. 

 

The Independent


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