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Four police injured in second night of disturbances in Barcelona

Xinhua, May 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Four members of the Catalan police officer were injured in a second night of disturbances in Barcelona on Tuesday night.

Tuesday's incidents followed the trouble which erupted in the fashionable Gracia neighborhood of the town after the police had evicted squatters from an unused bank they had been using as an unofficial meeting place since 2011.

Monday saw rubber bullets fired at protestors who responded by setting fire to rubbish containers, breaking windows and overturning some nearby parked cars.

Tuesday saw a demonstration involving an estimated 300 people against the eviction and protestors tore off the metal sheets covering the entrance to the building in an attempt to repossess it. Meanwhile 14 rubbish containers were overturned and one set on fire.

Anti-disturbance police quickly arrived on the scene and carried out a baton charge before once again evicting those who had been able to force their way into the former bank.

The Spanish press reports that although police have identified some of the participants, none have so far been arrested and that although four policemen were hurt in the incident none of them required hospital attention. Endit