All across Spain yesterday, tens of thousands of students took to the streets to protest austerity cuts to education, AP reports.
In Barcelona, a smaller group pulled away and began starting fires and throwing missiles, allegedly provoked by the police.
Protestors had been protesting cuts to education that they saw as disrupting their studies.
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They claim the cuts are so bad that classes were being held without heat
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"They are making cuts in public education, they are giving us no option to work, and on top of this, when we protest democratically, they beat us with complete impunity," a union leader told AFP.
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