Spain: Nearly a hundred wounded in Catalonia in incidents during the referendum

Referendum in Catalonia 2017: live count

Almost a hundred people were injured on Sunday in incidents when police intervened to prevent a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia, regional health services announced.

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A spokeswoman said that the health services served 337 people who came to hospitals and health centers.

Of this total, he said he had confirmed 90 wounded and one "seriously injured", caught in one eye. As for the others, the diagnosis was not known at the moment.

For its part, the Spanish Ministry of Interior reported on 11 wounded agents: nine national police and two civil guards.

From before dawn, hundreds of people had concentrated before the electoral colleges planned by the Catalan regional government for the celebration of the consultation, prohibited by Madrid.Its objective was to vote and also to "protect" these centers peacefully, cutting off access to the police, who had orders to keep them closed.
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However, the police and the Civil Guard forcibly entered different schools, particularly in Barcelona and Girona, the fief of the Catalan president, the separatist Carles Puigdemont.

In some cases, the agents charged against those who opposed resistance, using rubber pellets, according to several witnesses questioned by AFP.

Eyewitnesses broadcast images of the incidents on social networks, showing how some demonstrators were being pushed by police and even beaten with batons to leave.

In another video, protesters were seen shouting "murderers, murderers" at the agents, and surrounding them, with hands raised, a group of riot police.

In a video sent by Mark Riera Callol, who is from Catalonia, it is possible to appreciate the degree of violence with the police strikes to the inhabitants who went to the referendum, regardless of if there are women, old or children, all the attacked alike.

Citizens have had to use different methods to prevent the police from intervening, they have created barricades to prevent the police from reaching the polling stations and have anchored the ballot boxes so that they do not take them.

One of the audios sent by Riera explains the degree of violence with which they are attacked, a woman mentioned that the police broke her fingers and touched her breasts only because she wanted to go to vote.

The delegation of British observers, composed of 14 parliamentarians, has just declared at a press conference that he is in shock with what he is witnessing.

It has declared that it gives full validity to the referendum and to the number of votes.

On the other hand, it has declared that it will take the Spanish State to the international criminal court of the Hague.

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