“Our city council is one of the most indebted in the whole country and still our mayor is set on carrying on with the project of building a boulevard we do not really need,” Amaia, a former Burgos resident now living in Bilbao, told the BBC News website.
“We are in the street every day trying to show our discontent. Lots of cities across Spain have shown their support because, in one way or another, they are going through similar situations.”A Madrid demonstration in sympathy with protests in the northern Spanish city of Burgos against a local government plan to convert a street into a tree-lined boulevard turned violent on Wednesday, leading to 11 arrests and 11 injuries.
Rioters tossed smoke bombs, threw chairs from street terraces and burned garbage containers in central Madrid after a march that began in the capital’s Puerta del Sol square and ended near the ruling conservative People’s Party (PP) central headquarters.
Police and emergency service sources said 11 protesters were arrested and 11 people, including five police officers, were injured during the riots.
It was one of 46 protests across Spanish cities on Wednesday against the state-financed project in Burgos that has stoked public fury
