{"id":503395,"date":"2025-10-16T05:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503395\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:51:13","slug":"riots-rock-major-spanish-city-as-protesters-burn-cars-and-clash-with-police-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503395\/","title":{"rendered":"Riots rock major Spanish city as protesters burn cars and clash with police | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters<\/a> in one of Spain’s major cities have clashed with riot police during a nationwide general strike. Protesters have been marching through the streets of Barcelona<\/a> on Wednesday (October 15) as part of a 24-hour walkout, which organisers have said has been called to protest “the genocide in Palestine”.<\/p>\n

The demonstration has thrown the Catalan capital into chaos, with trains, metros and buses running on skeleton timetables with normal service set at a maximum of 66%. In recent footage shared online, the rally appears to have turned violent, with riot police forced to use pepper spray on protesters, while a vehicle has been set on fire, with “Free Gaza<\/a>” written on the boot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to NationalWorld, the CGT, IAC, Intersindical-CSC, and COS unions<\/a> have called for 24-hour stoppages, while CCOO and UGT have called partial two-hour stoppages (from 10 am to 12 pm, from 2 pm to 4 pm, and from 5 pm to 7 pm).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previous posts showed protesters blocking the main roads in and out of Barcelona\u2019s commercial port. Now, the protesters have marched into the city’s main area.<\/p>\n

The protesters are marching through the main streets and are pointing out stores that are \u201ccomplicit in genocide\u201d. CGT posted on X: \u201cThe picket of the #Vaga15O in Terrassa goes through the main streets of the city and highway accesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cStores complicit in the genocide have been pointed out, such as Carrefour, Zara, McDonald’s<\/a>. This afternoon demonstration at 6 PM in front of M\u00fatua de Terrassa\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters in one of Spain’s major cities have clashed with riot police during a nationwide general strike. Protesters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[164961,199,164958,164962,164960,10982,35529,164963,146963,12,1814,164959,2579,92158,104,26,18338],"class_list":{"0":"post-503395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-24-hour-walkout","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-barcelona-protest","11":"tag-blocking-the-main-roads","12":"tag-cgt-union","13":"tag-gaza-strip","14":"tag-mcdonalds","15":"tag-mu00fatua-de-terrassa","16":"tag-nationwide-strike","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-palestine","19":"tag-palestine-genocide","20":"tag-protests","21":"tag-riot-police","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-zara"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115382287278157597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}