Spanish PM To Resign After National Police Attacked Catalonia, Citizens.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was urged to resign on Sunday after national police attacked (Catalonian) citizens, who were participating in a referendum that Madrid has declared illegal.
Protesters confront Spanish national police officers during a demonstration at Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on Sunday in support of the right to hold a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia and against repression.
Several left-wing Spanish politicians today demanded Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy resign after police used force to block voting in a banned independence referendum in Catalonia, injuring dozens of people. (AFP)
Civil guards grab a man in Sant Julia de Ramis, near Girona, Spain, on Sunday as scuffles erupt during a protest rally by voters after dozens of anti-rioting police broke into a polling station where the regional leader was expected to show up.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was urged to resign on Sunday after national police attacked citizens in the northeastern region of Catalonia who were participating in a referendum that Madrid has declared illegal.
As voting centers started counting the votes cast, Catalonia’s health services also raised the number of people injured by police to 761 people who were treated at hospitals.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was urged to resign on Sunday after national police attacked (Catalonian) citizens, who were participating in a referendum that Madrid has declared illegal.
Protesters confront Spanish national police officers during a demonstration at Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on Sunday in support of the right to hold a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia and against repression.
Several left-wing Spanish politicians today demanded Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy resign after police used force to block voting in a banned independence referendum in Catalonia, injuring dozens of people. (AFP)
Civil guards grab a man in Sant Julia de Ramis, near Girona, Spain, on Sunday as scuffles erupt during a protest rally by voters after dozens of anti-rioting police broke into a polling station where the regional leader was expected to show up.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was urged to resign on Sunday after national police attacked citizens in the northeastern region of Catalonia who were participating in a referendum that Madrid has declared illegal.
As voting centers started counting the votes cast, Catalonia’s health services also raised the number of people injured by police to 761 people who were treated at hospitals.
The service said two people are in serious condition in hospitals in Barcelona. It also said that another person is being treated for an eye injury that fits the profile of having been hit by a rubber bullet.
Spanish riot police smashed their way into polling stations across the northeastern region to try and stop Sunday’s referendum on independence. Spain’s top court had suspended the vote but local authorities went ahead anyway.
Police used batons, fired rubber bullets, and roughed up voters. Catalan authorities say police even used tear gas once.
Despite the violence, Catalonians declared success in the referendum as voting ended.
At one voting station in Barcelona, in the Joan Miro school, applause broke out Sunday night after 8 p.m. as it was announced that voting had ended. Volunteers opened the plastic ballot boxes, turned them over and started sorting the ballots.
Joan Maria Pique, spokesman for Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, says that polling stations are closing except at those where people are still waiting to vote.
Amid the violence, Barcelona’s mayor called on Rajoy to quit in shame.
Mayor Ada Colau told TV3 that “Rajoy has been a coward, hiding behind the prosecutors and courts.
Today he crossed all the red lines with the police actions against normal people, old people, families who were defending their fundamental rights.”
“It seems obvious to me that Mariano Rajoy should resign,” she said.
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