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This tragedy, which occurred yesterday morning in Barcelona, is still unfolding. The Catalan Police, the Mosso d'Esquadra, not the Spanish National Police, moved in a group of people who had been camping in La Plaza de Catalunya, historically the heart of Barcelona and of Catalunya. The protesters had been there for several days peacefully protesting the handling of the economic crisis by the government.
Indignats | Desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya
(Video on YouTube by jsalvia)
The Police moved in and soon began clubbing defenseless civilians, most of them young people, causing at least 100 of them to require medical treatment and putting some of them in the hospital. At one point a photographer (acampapadabcnfoto on Flickr) captured a member of the Catalan police force, the Mosso d'Esquadra, attacking a man in a wheelchair. As the morning wore on, they began firing rubber bullets at the pavement, which caused many of them to ricochet into the crowd.
Spanish protesters clash with police over clean-up: Violence breaks out around Barcelona's Plaça de Catalunya, the first trouble after 12 days of protests (Report by Giles Tremlett, guardian.co.uk)
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com
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