(25 Mar 2018) Crowds clashed with police in downtown Barcelona on Sunday as angry Catalans protested against the detention of fugitive former leader Carles Puigdemont in Germany.
Police dressed in riot gear struck demonstrators with batons as they tried to push back a large crowd that was trying to advance toward the office of the Spanish government's representative in Catalonia.
Catalan police blocked the street and issued a call for people not to gather.
Thousands answered the call by a pro-independence grassroots group to protest in the city centre hours after Puigdemont was detained by German police.
Puigdemont fled from Spain in October following an illegal declaration of independence by the Catalan region.

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