A journalist was attacked last night in an independence act in Barcelona
The Diada began yesterday at midnight in the Fossar de les Moreres (Barcelona) and has continued this morning with the floral offering at the statue of Rafael de Casanova, in an atmosphere of tension, with whistles, shouts and insults among the independentistas. A good part of the anger was taken by the ERC last night, but also by Junts and the PDeCAT. Shouts of “traitors”, “botiflers” and “Spaniards” and constant boos in the Fossar, a kind of sacred place for nationalism because there is a monument there in homage to the fallen of the battle of 1714. This is the place they go the parties to initiate the acts of the Diada and where radical independence supporters usually leave the attending public angry. Two of the ERC leaders responded to the whistles. On the one hand, Meritxell Serret, who spent more than three years on the run in Brussels after the events of October 2017, and above all the deputy general secretary of the party, Marta Vilalta, who in a very fiery tone challenged those who yelled at her to They will yell louder. “Louder, come on, we don’t listen to you, while you scream, ERC will work to reach independence,” she replied. In the tension of the night, a graphic journalist was attacked. The Mossos had to intervene and identified the aggressors.
The tension in the Fossar, which is usual and that last year rebuked Oriol Junqueras and Jordi Turull, has been repeated this Sunday in the floral offering to Rafael de Casanova, chief councilor of the city of Barcelona in 1714 and highest military authority and politics during the Bourbon siege of Barcelona. Yesterday’s whistle has been repeated against the president of the Generalitat, against ERC, the PDeCAT and against non-independence parties. Some insults have also been heard with a megaphone: “Sons of bitches.”
After the offering, the president of the Generalitat has reiterated a part of the institutional speech that he gave yesterday. “Today is a day of vindication, of being proud of the nation that we are. I am convinced that Catalonia will vote again », he assured. Regarding the tension and the whistles, Aragonès has indicated that he expects the Catalans to express themselves with all their plurality, although he has claimed to focus the claims in favor of the referendum.
The Government has appeared in full. This afternoon, on the other hand, the division will emerge within the Catalan Executive. And it is that the tension of the first hours will be transferred in the afternoon to the pro-independence demonstration organized by the ANC and which will not be attended by the president of the Generalitat or the ERC advisers and party leaders. The Republicans have justified their absence in the fact that they consider that the protest has focused on charging Esquerra and the Government.
Aragonès, in his institutional speech on the occasion of 9/11, guaranteed that Catalonia will vote in a referendum and defended the dialogue table, which this afternoon at the demonstration will receive strong opposition. «Catalonia will vote. She will do it sooner or later depending on how strong we are, but she will. We will do it”. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, promised yesterday not to “never” give up that the Catalans can decide their future and was convinced that, in an “inevitable” way, Catalonia will hold a referendum on independence. The head of the Catalan Executive, in the institutional message on the occasion of the Diada, called for the mobilization, “each one from their convictions and their vision of the country”, in full confrontation with the ANC, which has caused the Republican leader and his party do not attend the pro-independence demonstration.
A part of the independence movement accuses Aragonès and ERC of having tried to demobilize people for this year’s ANC march. Days ago, the president admitted that the referendum is going to take a long time and that he will not be able to negotiate it until at least 2024. There were those who accused him of giving up self-determination. He was a bucket of cold water on the eve of 9/11. The Republican leader, in his institutional speech, tried to ingratiate himself with the independentistas who most criticize him and launched a message of granite commitment to the right to decide. Aragonès also defended the dialogue table, which today will be the target of the most poisonous darts of the ANC, and affirmed that he is “managing to return the conflict to politics” and reaching “agreements” with the Government to “facilitate the end of the repression and to put an end to the threat of prosecution”. “And this is essential to facilitate a negotiation that once and for all addresses the substance of the political conflict with the ‘State’”, he pointed out. The president of the Generalitat also boasted of having “saved” immersion and that “for the first time in the last seven years, no educational center will see how they impose 25% of classes in Spanish.”
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