Thousands of passengers were stranded at the airport, with many were forced to walk with their luggage on roads and across fields. The caretaker Spanish foreign minister, Josep Borrell, soon due to become the European Union’s top diplomat, said the sentence wasn’t resolving the underlying political problems that only dialogue “in the framework of the Constitution” could. Protesters stand behind a banner reading in Catalan, Freedom for Political Prisoners (Emilio Morenatti/AP)A three-day student strike begins Wednesday. Spain’s airport operator, Aena, said that more than 1,000 flights were scheduled to operate normally in Barcelona on Tuesday, with six flights cancelled compared to 110 on Monday. The regional emergency service, SEM, said that 131 people had been treated overnight for injuries, most of them at the airport.

Source: Irish Independent October 15, 2019 11:48 UTC