Barcelona Riots 17.11.2007

We have caught the moment when the police arrived and started to break up the demonstration. So far we have seen the demonstration was peaceful in this street up to the moment when the police showed up. However there were heavy riots further down the block where troublemakers concentrated their action.
Anyway what was really scary is that the policemen did not distinguish between tourists (coming out of bars and shops) and troublemakers. If you've been in that street at that certain time you simply had bad luck...

Video taken from above a few hundred meters from Placa de Catalunya.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Barcelona
• riots
• mossos
• d'esquadra
• policia
• police
• polizei
• violent
• brutal

[rkarr01]

ok franscesc2000 you are right and wrong. i was just in a riot 2 days ago here in BCE and the protesters beat the shit out of the cops with rocks and sticks and the cops beat EVERYONE (including turists) the fuck up. Its quite exciting. I dont really think anyone gets killed but is still pretty wild. You say tourists getting beat up is a lie than talk to everyone inside the hostel the cops raided and attacked!

[Francesc2000]

And you can tell tourists from demonstrators from up a roof? How do you know they beat up tourists? Is this video proof of that? Why don't you stop propagating lies and understand that no matter what you say, that doesn't make it true. These vans were responding to violent acts (filmed also) where police officers were being attacked.

[paubat]

Are you asking for the city? are you blind? just look at the title XD

[bangkokgringo]

erm yes. police vans in a city centre. what city? what fans? what riot? in the sense of accuracy of reporting, this scores 0/10