Dozens of tourists saw a standoff with police in the early hours of Monday in Lloret de Mar.
It seems the Catalan Regional Police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, and the Local Police from Lloret, had blocked off the street after the discotheques closed, and the tourists then started to throw bottles and other objects at them.
The police say they were obliged to fire rubber bullets for their own protection and to disperse the crowd.
Reports indicate that police were first called in after some 400 hundred youngsters remained in the main avenue of the town after the clubs had closed, refused to go home, and started vandalism of street fittings and shops. Several containers were overturned and a police car was damaged.
El Mundo reports that most of the tourists were French and Italians, and that the conflict ended after the arrest of a 23 year old Frenchman who faces public order offences and is being processed by the Instruction Court in Blanes.
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