Spanish police on Monday night used batons to charge against a group of people protesting, some using fire flares, outside the ruling Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid against a proposed amnesty law related to Catalonia's independence drive.
Spanish riot police officers detain a person during a protest near to Spain's Socialists Party headquarters, following acting PM Pedro Sanchez negotiations for granting an amnesty to people involved with Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid in Madrid, Spain, November 6, 2023....The clashes led to chaotic scenes of people running amid smoke and trash containers thrown in the streets, Reuters video footage showed.
Police used rubber bullets and smoke canisters to disperse the crowd as some pushed portable fences protecting the Socialist HQ and threw bottles at the police, according to El Pais newspaper. The amnesty law has been proposed by acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is trying to form a government after a July election produced no outright winner, in exchange for the backing of two Catalan separatist parties to a new term by Sanchez. The most high-profile beneficiary would be Carles Puigdemont who led Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid.
Wrapped in Spanish flags, some protesters chanted "Sanchez to prison" and "Puigdemont to prison" and others held a banner that read "Spaniards have the right and the duty to protect Spain".
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