CATALONIA
SPANISH National Police officers have tried to justify the damage they
caused to schools which were being used as polling stations during the
2017 Catalan independence referendum.
An unidentified officer, one of several who gave evidence anonymously
at the Supreme Court in Madrid, told the trial of 12 independence
leaders that at one school – where Carme Forcadell, speaker of the
Catalan Parliament, was to vote – 30 gates were bent and buckled in the search for ballot boxes because they had to act quickly.
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Spanish National Police clash with voters outside a polling station in Barcelona on October 1, 2017
