Barcelona and catalonia 

Yesterday's riots were the biggest riots that the city has experienced probably since 1936. There were thousands and thousands of people in Plaça Urquinaona, resisting the smoke, tear gas (that was thrown from the top of the buildings) and all the rubber ball shoots (that come from the Policia Nacional, the spanish police [because these were banned from being used by the Mossos, the catalan police, since they bounce and end in people's eyes (and they lose them)]. Only yesterday 6 people lost they're eyes. This is something huge, people are fed up with all the "Procés" politicians inability. They made the referendum and no one is taking the results and applying them. This last two years the goverment has done nothing about it. And people are fed up. They're mostly young people (16-25), people who also doesn't have lots of future expectations.

Barcelona and catalonia 

The riots don't have a clear objective (apart from bringing up to the table that people has had enough), and that's why the protests are focusing in Plaça Urquinaona / Via Laietana, since there's the Cuartel de la Policia Nacional, one of the maximum representation of spanish colonization (and when during the Franco dictatorship dissidents were sent to and were tortured and killed). Yesterday morning (when there was just a concentration) PN arrested and publicy humiliated a teen, and people started to heat up. Riots started at 17:30 and stayed there until 00:30 (with PN shooting rubber balls all the time), when Mossos took out the water tank...

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@nefix
What is reason for Catalonia to be independent? I'm out of the loop so I don't understand why is this happening

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