after hours of watching it, officers of the national police corps circled the headquarters of the popular unity candidacy party (cup) at 1:00pm, in casp street, barcelona, but were prevented from searching inside by party members and supporters due to not having a court order. the party made several calls to the citizenship to ""go to protect our headquarters"" and organized a sit-in protest in order to block spanish police access to their offices which gathered thousands of people. the police deployment lasted eight hours until they finally left without searching the building or arresting anyone. david fernàndez, member of cup, defined the intend to enter their headquarters without a court order as a ""flagrant crime against fundamental, civil and political rights"".