Police repression in solidarity demo in Barcelona

Due to the cold blooded murder of an antifascist youth in Madrid earlier this month, more than a thousand people took to the streets of Barcelona in solidarity with Carlos, the boy assassinated, and in condemnation of fascism and the governmental institutions’ cover ups on the matter.

Police did their best to prevent the mobility of the march and in numerous occasions charged brutally against demonstrators.

At one stage a swastika sign was burned as a symbol of refusal to fascism.

Participants argued: …” this is another clear attempt by the authorities to prevent an act of free expression such as protesting, as it has been done in previous occasions; making the Catalan ministerial institutions accomplice of the Spanish State’s consent of fascist activities for its their legacy from dictator Franco.”