Thousands of Catalan protesters staged a demonstration in front of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Barcelona on Thursday, to denounce a Spanish police raid of ‘Omnium Cultural’s’ offices and their arrest of Catalan official Antoni Molons earlier in the day.
Protesters stood in front of the Generalitat with signs reading: ‘We are Omnium’. Catalan politicians also took part in the protest.
“We denounce this McCarthyism that the Spanish state is imposing, in each answer there is a judicial answer, it’s never a political answer,” deputy of ‘Junts per Catalunya’ Quim Torra said.
“Stop police repression, stop resolving political problems with justice, sit down, talk and make dialogue, the ideas of a whole population can’t be persecuted,” Josep Maria Cervera urged the Spanish administration.
Spain’s Guardia Civil raided the offices of the ‘Omnium Cultural’ pro-independence association during operations concerning the October 1 referendum, according to local media reports.