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Added on the 18/12/2019 17:21:48 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Protesters with the pro-independence movement block roads in Barcelona, causing traffic to come to a standstill. On Monday, hundreds of separatists shut down the busy motorway between France and Spain at the border in protest over the sentencing last month of nine of their leaders to lengthy jail terms. IMAGES
Pro-independence protesters block the roads to Barcelona airport, forcing passengers to finish the trip on foot. The protest comes as Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in jail for sedition over the failed 2017 independence bid. IMAGES
Pro-unity demonstrators gather in front of Barcelona's Generalitat building on Constitution Day, a public holiday celebrated in Spain on 6 December, to show that their mobilisation against separation is not weakening. IMAGES
Pro-independence supporters gather near the Arc de Triomf in Barcelona to follow the speech of Carles Puigdemont on a big screen. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters gather in Barcelona to demonstrate a day after hundreds were injured in a police crackdown during Catalonia's banned independence referendum. IMAGES