BBC Short Video - Las Ramblas:
The BBC's Angus Roxburgh
"At one point police fired into the air to dispurse the crowds"

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1875000/video/_1875199_barca_roxburgh18_vi.ram

audio transcript:

"In the afternoon there was a tense stand off between a couple of hundred anti capitalist protestors and ranks of riot police in barcelona's main tourist street Las Ramblas.

Suddenly a few stones were hurled and the police charged.

This is what the authoritites here have been dreading, not to mention europes leaders meeting at their summit just a couple of miles from here. The last thing they want is for their talks about the economy to be overshadowed once again by violence in the street.

It wasnt a full scale riot, only five people were arrested, there was scarcely any damage, but at one point the police fired into the air to disperse the crowd.

The tactic worked, the protestors were divided into little groups and pushed out of the area."

ENDS....

MAIN ARTICLE:

Friday, 15 March, 2002
Clashes break out at EU summit

Riot police have used batons to break up crowds of protesters staging anti-globalisation protests in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where European Union leaders are holding a two-day summit.

About 1,000 young protesters gathered in Las Ramblas, the main boulevard in the city centre, to taunt police and throw stones.

Police responded by hitting protesters with batons...

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