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The demonstrators threw bottles and stones at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral in Argentina during ugly scenes on Wednesday night.

Police used a tall steel fence to preserve the 18th-century religious building from any damage from the protest.

Cathedrals are regularly targeted by female demonstrations in Argentina as they are blamed for preventing greater access to abortion.

Events soon began to spiral out of control when a lone man carrying a Vatican City flag stood in front of the cathedral.0



It is not clear how the confrontation began as the clip began in the middle of it.