The police of Barcelona attempted to carry out evictions in the neighborhood of Raval and were met by hundreds of protesters who rioted and successfully pushed out the police from the area. The police were forced to flee from an angry mob of hundreds of civilians, who would successfully have trapped them in a corner otherwise.
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