Spanish Civil Guards flee Catalan town

CIVIL Guards fled their accomodation in the coastal town of Calella, Catalonia on Monday morning after a protest by locals against police brutality in the banned referendum in the region mutated into a demonstration demanding the police forces leave.
According to Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, the mayor of the coastal town, Monserrat Candini told a group of 500 protestors on Sunday evening “We don’t want the hotels in Calella to be a barracks.”
The protestors repeatedly chanted “You’re not welcome” at the Civil Guard.
On Sunday evening, during the standoff, the Civil Guard reportedly charged the demonstrators, breaking through a line of local police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, in order to reach the protestors. There were no reports of injuries.
According to agency reports, this morning Civil Guard have now moved on, apparently following a phone call from the mayor to the hotel owners insisting they leave, and the hotel itself has now closed its doors to the public.
Another group of Spanish state police, staying in a different hotel also in Calella have remained unaffected by the incidents, but some local bars have apparently put up signs refusing to serve them as customers.

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