Catalonia, pro-independence again in the square. The mayor: "Enough violence". Torra: "Madrid fixed negotiations without conditions"

The balance of yesterday's protest

The city comes to terms with the violence that occurred in the protests on Friday: in the whole of Catalonia there are 180 wounded, 83 arrests. In the square, 525,000 yesterday fell, while thousands more took part in five Catalan cities. And today, Barcelona is preparing for a Saturday of independence demonstrations. There is the fear of new clashes in the demonstration "against repression" always called in Piazza d'Urquinaona at 6 pm by Arran, a youth organization of the radical Catalan independent left, which calls for the resignation of the Regional Minister of the Interior.

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Meanwhile, on the Via Laietana the circulation has resumed, according to local media, but the landscape is devastating, "it seems the war has passed", says a witness. In Barcelona alone, 152 people needed hospital care, after hours of clashes with police who used hydrants, tear gas and rubber bullets. Other wounded were registered in Girona, Tarragona and Lleida.

The appeal of the mayor

The mayor of the Catalan capital, Ada Colau, appealed for calm after the violent clashes between separatists and law enforcement that shook the city. "You can't go on like this, Barcelona doesn't deserve it," he said. The mayor judged Friday's "massive, democratic, exemplary and peaceful mobilizations", for which he wanted to "congratulate the citizens as a whole".

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The president of Catalonia

The president of Catalonia Quim Torra stated that "no form of violence represents us and represents the exercise of democracy and freedom", however "the cause of freedom is unstoppable and we will go as far as the people of Catalonia want to go". Torra, from the headquarters of the Generalitat after the Barcelona demonstration, then urged Prime Minister Sanchez "because you set a day and an hour to open a negotiating table without conditions".With the request for "unconditional" negotiations, Torra wants to be able to address the issue of a referendum on self-determination, which Madrid wants. "We call for this negotiation process for a political resolution of a political conflict that has been going on for a long time and is now more urgent than ever," he added. On the guerrilla war unleashed by some protesters, Torra simply asked for "responsibility for future protests" and stressed that "the defense of rights and freedoms must be expressed as always, peacefully". "Violence has never been our flag and it never will be," he insisted, without explicitly condemning last night's violence.

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