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Added on the 03/10/2017 11:41:55 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Thousands of demonstrators waving Catalan flags gather in central Barcelona as part of a region-wide strike against the trial of separatist leaders for their role in a failed 2017 secession attempt. IMAGES
Some 700,000 people take to Barcelona's streets, city police say, to protest against police violence during a banned weekend independence referendum in Catalonia, demanding to be heard. IMAGES
Pro-independence Catalans protest in front of Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party (PP) headquarters in Barcelona as part of a regional strike is in response to the police crackdown during Sunday's independence referendum vote, which saw hundreds of people injured. IMAGES
Protesters take to the streets of Paris, burn down signs and clash with French security forces in the most serious violence yet of a three-month revolt against President Emmanuel Macron's hugely controversial pension reform. Dozens of police were injured, and dozens of protesters arrested nationwide, the government said, as a day of protests descended into violence in several cities including Paris, where protesters lit fires in the historic centre of the city. IMAGES
As French President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Pedro Sanchez ink a Franco-Spanish friendship treaty in Barcelona, thousands of pro-independence groups march towards the city's French Consulate in protest of the meet, shouting: "Independence!" and waving separatist flags. IMAGES