Tensions boiled over in Barcelona as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest an escalating national housing crisis.
The violent clashes erupted just hours after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap general election for November 29, triggered by the parliamentary defeat of key emergency housing relief decrees.
Fueled by soaring rents, a lack of affordable housing, and widespread public frustration over failed legislative measures, protesters clashed with riot police in the city center, compounding a wave of nationwide civil unrest that has gripped Spain's major metropolitan areas.
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