BARCELONA: Masked protesters set bins on fire and threw rocks and glass bottles at police who responded with foam bullets in a street near Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium as Barcelona and Real Madrid faced off on Wednesday in the first Clasico of the season.
The protesters, many of them carrying Catalan separatist flags, began setting up barricades in the middle of the street, which they then set on fire after police arrived in dozens of vans, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. Calm returned to the street as fans began to leave the stadium at the end of the match, which ended in a 0-0 draw.Police closed the south exits of the stadium leading to the street where the clashes took place and asked fans to leave the venue through the north exits for"security reasons".
The original fixture in October had to be postponed due to the violent demonstrations across the wealthy northeastern region.
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