Catalan independence protests planned to sabotage the Clasico Barcelona Strategy designed to halt the game

The clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid due to take place on Saturday October 26, which has been postponed to Wednesday December 18, is once again in the news.

It comes as plans from the Committee for the Defence of the Republic (CDR), a pro-Catalan independence group, have been revealed.

El Mundo claim that the plan was to cut off all travel routes to prevent Real Madrid from being able to get to their hotel or to the stadium and also to create an electronic sabotage to cut off television signals from Camp Nou.

In the end, none of this took place as authorities feared that such situations could arise with other protests also likely in favour of the freedom of Catalan politicians who have been sentenced for crimes relating to an independence referendum in 2017.