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Letter to @thetimes - International Observers in #Catalonia say “On #1Oct all the protests against police raids in order to seize ballot boxes etc were entirely non-violent.— Douglas Chapman MP 🏴 (@DougChapmanSNP) 29 de març de 2019
The only violence we saw was committed by the police against citizens.” @thetimes @anc_de @CatalansForYes pic.twitter.com/OqwmgSwstz
Catalan court case
Sir, on October 1 2017 we were parliamentary observers of the Catalan independence referendum along with other parliamentarians from across Europe. We have been following the trial taking place in Spain supreme court of 12 Catalan leaders acccused of rebellion and sedition. Under spanish law rebellion is defined as a "violent public uprising".In recent days officers of the Guardia Civil, the paramilitary police sent to Catalonia to stop the independence referendum, have described those days as being an "insurrectionary period" and said that protesters attacked them.
The former Spanish secretary of state for security, José Antonio Nieto, admitted that Spanish police used force on October 1 2017, but that was because the police were under threat and that some of their colleagues had been isolated or surrounded. On the day of the referendum, all the protests that we witnessed against police raids on polling stations in order to seize ballot boxes, which involved on occasion forcible enty and the batoning of those trying to protect the polling stations, were entirely non-violent. Indeed, the only violence we saw was committed by the police against citizens.
Hywel Williams M.P.
Lord rennard
Joanna Cherry M.P.
Douglas Chapman, M.P.
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