Riots Rock Barcelona After Separatist Strike Draws Huge Crowd
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Rioting rocked Barcelona for a fifth night after a general strike drew a crowd of half a million people onto the streets of the Catalan capital to protest jail sentences for the leaders of a bid two years ago to secede from Spain.
While the strike passed off largely peacefully, Barcelona and other Catalan cities tipped into renewed violence Friday night. Televised images showed water cannon being used to disperse protesters who mounted burning barricades and showered police with rocks.