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Spanish Rampage: General strike erupts in street violence

Posted by EU Times on Apr 1st, 2012 // No Comment

Riot police took to the streets of Spain as protesters burned bins, vandalized shops and attacked officers during a one day nationwide general strike. Spaniards angry with having the eurozone’s highest unemployment rate refused to go to work in protest at further crushing austerity measures being brought in by the new center-right Popular Party government.

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