Catalonia holds protest
Many thousand Catalan favoring independence from Spain, demonstrated, together gathered outside the Barcelona headquarters of Spain’s national police force on Tuesday amid strikes in protest at police violence during the disputed referendum on Catalonian independence.
A strike called by pro-independence groups and trade unions in Catalonia on Tuesday left subway stations in Barcelona closed, and pickets blocked main roads, media channels reported.
Catalonia’s leader said 90% of voters backed independence from Spain, the central government has vowed to stop rich northeastern region. Catalon accounts for a fifth of Spain’s economy, from breaking away, dismissing the poll as a ‘farce’.
Spanish leaders ask, where is their energy, or its bill, currency, sustainable economy to bank.
Civil servants also walked out in response after hundreds were injured in a Spanish police crackdown on a banned independence referendum. The stoppages, were originally billed as a region-wide general strike, while the country’s largest unions disavowed it.
Two largest unions in Spain said on Monday they would not take part in the general strike. They called for dialogue between the central government and Catalonia, criticizing both the call for independence and the tough police tactics.
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