You might now that there is a concentration in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona to show the discontent about democracy in Spain. Until today people has been in the square for almost 15 days.
As you might now there is the big Champions League Final in Wembley this weekend.
What's the relation between these two independent events? Well usually FC Barcelona wins are celebrated close to Plaça Catalunya and the government was afraid that something bad could happen. So what did they do?
Evict them, forcefully and violently from the square. They said that they wanted to tidy up the square and take out the dangerous things (tables, chairs, computers,...) so, in case there was some celebration, football fans wouldn't be able to hurt the demonstrators. There were to kind of police involved, the Barcelona's local police and the autonomic police known as Mossos d'Esquadra. The last ones weren't all cool about it, so when people decided that they wouldn't leave the place they started pulling them and hitting them and shooting some kind of balls that are supposed to be used agains angry crowds, except demonstrators weren't offering violent resistance, they were only sitting on the floor.
You can see what happened in the video. Right now Plaça Catalunya it's full again, because we need politicians to listen to us!
Wow! cannot imagine this happened in Europe. What was the statment provided by the police chief after the incident. In violation of Human Rights, could the Police Head could be fired under European Law?
ReplyDeleteI don't know people is asking for the catalan "minister" of the police to resign, but it's not the first time something like this happens, and the responsible back then didn't resign, anyways it wasn't as bad as what happened now. Yesterday he did a press conference stating that they only wanted to clean Plaça Catalunya, he only says that they should have done it earlier in the morning (I guess because no one could have seen it if they evicted the protesters at 4 AM)
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