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More than a hundred people gathered outside the Sant Feliu de Llobregat station, in Barcelona, Saturday, to protest against the relocation of a local mosque.
The rally was called by the National Democracy party, and saw the participation of demonstrators holding flares as well as signs reading "Stop Islam. Spain is Christian," "No mosques" and "Stop to the Islamisation of Europe."
President of National Democracy Manuel Candela maintained that the party is not "against religious freedom," and his members are therefore not to be labelled "Nazis, or racist or xenophobic." He then stated that they only want to "defend the right of these neighbours and all Spanish people to decide what opens and what does not open in our country."
Besides some minor moments of tension when the demonstration was met by an antifascist counter-protest, no major incidents were reported.