Pro-independence demonstrators staged a protest outside Barcelona's Sants railway station on Saturday, with about a hundred storming the platforms and staging a sit-in, media reported
MADRID (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th November, 2019) Pro-independence demonstrators staged a protest outside Barcelona's Sants railway station on Saturday, with about a hundred storming the platforms and staging a sit-in, media reported.Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), an umbrella organization for various groups that stand for Catalan independence from Spain, organized the demonstration calling for a total blockade of the station via Twitter.
The train schedule was not disrupted as the demonstrators were shortly pushed out of the station to their comrades outside. No arrests were made, according to Spanish publication El Pais.
Earlier this week, another Catalan pro-independence group, Democratic Tsunami, organized the Spain-France highway blockade for three days. At least 19 people were detained following the protest.
The pro-independence protests in Catalonia began in mid-October as the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan pro-independence leaders to lengthy prison terms over their involvement in the 2017 independence referendum. Hundreds of people have been arrested and injured in the unrest in the wake of the court's decision.
