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Catalan president: 'We have earned the right to an independent state' – as it happened
Spanish prime minister claims ‘no referendum has been held in Catalonia today’ after hundreds were injured in police violence against voters
Here’s a roundup of the evening’s events:
Catalan president: 'We have earned the right to an independent state' – as it happened
Spanish prime minister claims ‘no referendum has been held in Catalonia today’ after hundreds were injured in police violence against voters
Here’s a roundup of the evening’s events:
- Carles Puigdemont, Catalan’s leader, announced in a televised statement that the region had earned the right to become an independent state and that results of the contentious referendum were expected in a few days.
- In a press conference shortly before, a defiant Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, said no referendum had been held today and blamed unrest on the Catalan government.
- Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez urged the Spanish government to negotiate with Catalonia and said Spanish and Catalan leaders had failed so far.
- Videos from earlier in the day show police hitting people in the crowd with batons while voters hold up their hands, police dragging voters from polling stations by their hair and Spanish police attacking Catalan firefighters.
- Rajoy praised the police and said they acted with “firmness and serenity”.
- According to the Catalan department of health, 761 people were injured in the unrest. Two were seriously injured and remain in hospitals in Barcelona.
- At least 10 police officers are said to have been injured.
- There have been several calls by Catalan politicians and opposition MPs for the Spanish prime minister to resign over the hardline police response.
- The Liberal Democrat leader, Vince Cable urged Boris Johnson to make clear that the violence against voters was unacceptable, while Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, called the foreign office’s statement “shamefully weak”. Earlier, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, asked Theresa May to intervene “to find political solution to the crisis”.
- Barcelona’s La Liga match against Las Palmas was played at an empty Camp Nou after the Catalan club’s request for the match to be postponed due to unrest was rejected.
- More than 40 unions and associations in Catalonia have called a region-wide strike on Tuesday in protest against today’s “grave violation of rights”.
Catalan president: 'We have earned the right to an independent state' – as it happened
fukk these cacs for what they did to the world. I hope they massacre each other into Bolivian, to paraphrase Mike Tyson 
