Protests erupt in Spain over Catalonia’s move for independence

Thousands of demonstrators reportedly marched through 50 Spanish cities dressed in white, carrying banners calling for peace and dialogue between leaders as Catalonia prepares to declare independence.

In Barcelona, protesters chanted “let’s talk” in Catalan, while many carried signs criticising political leaders for not finding a diplomatic solution to the impasse.

“This is producing a social rupture in Catalonia and this has to be resolved through dialogue, never via unilateralism,” Jose Manuel Garcia, 61, an economist who attended the protest dressed in white said.

Read also: Spanish court blocks move by Catalonia’s parliament to declare independence

“I‘m very worried. This will end badly and everyone will lose (without dialogue).”
Yesterday, Spanish government’s representative in Catalonia made a conciliatory gesture by apologising for violent police crackdown on protesters during Catalonia’s independence referendum staged last Sunday.

Spain specifically apologised to demonstrators who were injured during police efforts to stop Sunday’s independence referendum as both sides looked for a way out of the nation’s worst political crisis since it became a democracy four decades ago.

 

 

 

 

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