Eight people have been arrested for public disorder offences following violent clashes during the Diada Nacional de Cataluña in . The reported that incidents intensified from 8:00 PM as protesters burned containers and threw objects.
The unrest began near Plaza Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, where 1,500 people gathered. Tensions rose as 1,000 antifascist protesters, called by the Organización Juvenil Socialista, attempted to breach police lines protecting a Núcleo Nacional demonstration nearby.
Riot police deployed batons to prevent direct confrontation between neo-Nazi and antifascist groups. These charges were necessary to protect officers and allow the Barcelona Fire Department to extinguish blazes set along Paseo de Sant Joan and Ronda de Sant Pere.