Shocking scenes in Spain…
Voting Sunday morning, turned violent in Barcelona as thousands went to vote for the Catalonia independence referendum.
The Spanish constitutional court said the vote is illegal, the government is doing everything they can to prevent more than five million people voting.
Spanish authorities firing rubber bullets at their own people. Scary. #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/QsfuOG5nkH
— Stephen Brian Lowe (@SBrianLowe) October 1, 2017
Nasty scenes have been posted on social media showing police officers smashing through doors and windows with hammers at voting stations and seizing ballot boxes.
Who of you would like to be part of this country? #goodbye #Spain #CatalanReferendum #referendumCAT #1Oct #referendumRAC1 pic.twitter.com/40scQvNvNq
— Pere Hospital (@phospital) October 1, 2017
Carles Puigdemont the Catalan leader, said to reporters: “The unjustified use of violence… by the Spanish state will not stop the will of the Catalan people.”
The streets will be always ours! (III) #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/GE5oQ4vZYi
— 15MBcn_int (@15MBcn_int) October 1, 2017
He added that the police crackdown was “unjustified disproportionate and irresponsible” it shows a “dreadful external image of Spain.”
Welcome to Spain! You can’t vote to leave, cuz the EU pulls the strings! #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/Hyz3Ntgk1E
— BostonBobblehead (@DBloom451) October 1, 2017
Separatist leaders have pledged to continue with the referendum despite government warnings.
The Spanish police are hitting these peaceful people really hard… this is disgusting. #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/M96LgndeFW
— Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) October 1, 2017
Mark Stone a correspondent for Sky News who is in Barcelona said: “Police were hitting people sitting on the ground with their batons.
Peaceful people sing, then get brutally attacked by Spanish police.#CatalanReferendumpic.twitter.com/UZDMyR6qGC
— Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) October 1, 2017
“People then dispersed and moved out the way as a result and then the police vans – because space had been made for them – drove on through.
“People were throwing barricades at the police, and it escalated from there.”
Democracy, or whatever is left of it in Europe. #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/Hu6hZUP0d1
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) October 1, 2017
Stone added: “In some polling stations votes are happening, in others the whole thing has been shut down – with an incredible degree of violence.”
Footage of police rubber bullets used in Sabadell. #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/YMlUz7xXiC
— Fuad Alakbarov (@DrAlakbarov) October 1, 2017
Despite the unprecedented violence being witnessed across the news and social media, Enrico Millo who is the top government official in the region, said police were acting “professionally.”
Masked Thugs
Franco would be so proud
#CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/HPIeUNBhy0— Traquir (@traquir) October 1, 2017
Millo added:” Today’s events in Catalonia can never be portrayed as a referendum or anything similar.”
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