Some 1,500 people, according to the Guardia Urbana, have demonstrated in Barcelona in the traditional march called by the cup and the pro-independence left on the occasion of the Diada, a protest in which a group of hooded men has set fire to a Photography by Pedro Sánchez with Pere Aragonès.
The demonstration, in which, according to the CUP, 8,000 people have participated, began in Plaza Urquinaona in Barcelona – the epicenter of the riots of the October 2019 protests against the procés sentence – and ended, as usual, in the Barcelona neighborhood of El Born.
Although the tradition is usually to burn images of the King as the culmination of the march, on this occasion the hooded men have set fire to a large photograph of a meeting between the Spanish and Catalan presidents, on one of the sides of Paseo Lluís Companys in Barcelona.
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The demonstrators have acclaimed the burning of photographs, between proclamations such as “Neither France, nor Spain, Països Catalans” or “Esquerra and JxCat, patience has run out”.
During the course of the demonstration, which was attended by deputies from the CUP in Parliament and Congress, several groups of protesters have painted on the walls of some buildings, with slogans such as “Fire for capital”, “Spain = Fascism ” “Independence or submission.”