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Spanish Police Interrupts Referendum, Injures Voters, Then Voices Apology by Nobody: 10:54am On Oct 07, 2017
The Spanish government's representative in
Catalonia has apologised to those injured during
police efforts to stop Sunday's independence
referendum.
But Enric Millo blamed the Catalan government for
holding an illegal vote.
Meanwhile the government in Madrid has issued a
decree making it easier for companies to move
their headquarters away from Catalonia.
A Catalan minister told the BBC his government
would go ahead with an independence debate in
parliament.
"Parliament will discuss, parliament will meet," said
Catalan foreign affairs chief Raül Romeva. "Every
attempt the Spanish government has used to
impede things to happen, they have been
demonstrated completely not only useless but
counter-productive," he told the BBC in English.

Does Catalonia want to leave Spain?
In the first apology by a Spanish government official
over the violence on Sunday, which saw hundreds
injured as police, trying to enforce a Spanish court
ban on the vote, attempted to seize ballot boxes
and disperse voters, Mr Millo said he could not
help but "regret it and apologise on behalf of the
officers that intervened".
Friday has seen a number of political, business and
judicial developments in the unfolding crisis in
Catalonia.
The political developments
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont now plans to
address the Catalan parliament on Tuesday at
18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), the speaker of the
parliament says.
Spain's Constitutional Court had earlier suspended
the Catalan parliament session that had been
planned for Monday.
There is speculation that the parliament will declare
independence unilaterally at its next sitting, based
on last Sunday's disputed vote.
The final results from the outlawed poll show 90%
of the 2.3m people who voted backed
independence. Turnout was 43%.
There have been several claims of irregularities, and
many ballot boxes were seized by the Spanish
police.
After a cabinet meeting, the Spanish government
spokesman also expressed regret that people had
"suffered consequences" during Sunday's vote -
though he cast doubt on the numbers who had
been injured.
Íñigo Méndez de Vigo suggest that new elections
in Catalonia might be a way to heal the fracture
caused by the disputed referendum.

so where are all the people who said "civilized Spain" actually wanted referendum??

Re: Spanish Police Interrupts Referendum, Injures Voters, Then Voices Apology by olamilekside2: 11:05am On Oct 07, 2017
kk
Re: Spanish Police Interrupts Referendum, Injures Voters, Then Voices Apology by omololu2020(m): 1:10pm On Oct 07, 2017
If the Catalonias want to leave, then the Spanish government should let them to leave,must everything every conflict end with war?

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