Video: woman runs over protesters with her car during the 8M march

Demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona to commemorate International Women’s Day

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Demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona to commemorate International Women’s Day

The moment of the attack on the streets of Barcelona has been spread on social networks.

A motorist was caught on video after she rammed two protesters this Wednesday who took to the streets of Barcelona to commemorate International Women’s Day.

Through social networks, the moment in which a driver of a gray Ibiza brand vehicle accelerates on the avenue that was blocked by the protesters, taking two girls who were in the concentration ahead.

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Seconds later, the car is observed to stop meters ahead, when a group of girls approaches and begins to hit the car, while the protesters who were in the hood manage to get out of the car.

❗️ Run over the lazy feminist of March 8. A driver trains the tall of the demonstrators to the Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona, at the height of the RACC. She accelerates and invests some of them with the cotxe. Hi ha ferides lleus.

Images: @edgarsapinya / @laxarxa pic.twitter.com/IH2x8X5qew

— Edgar Sapiña Manchado (@edgarsapinya) March 8, 2023

Protesters block access in Barcelona

According to La Vanguardia, the events were recorded at the height of the Parc de Cervantes in Diagonal avenue in Barcelona, Spain.

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The video that was captured by the journalist from the xarxaEdgar Sapiña explained that the driver of the vehicle was traveling with a child whom she was going to take to school; However, this incident generated tension among the protesters, which is why the authorities had to intervene to calm the situation.

Sapiña added that the incident has left “light injuries” to the young women.

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