A student holds a placard reading "The shame of Europe" during a protest in Barcelona, on October 2, 2017 a day after hundreds were injured in a police crackdown during Catalonia's banned independence referendum. Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont said the region had won the right to break away from Spain after 90 percent of voters taking part in a banned referendum voted for independence, defying a sometimes violent police crackdown and fierce opposition from Madrid. / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU