tension, boos and aggression at the start of Diada 2022

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  • The public present in the Fossar de les Moreres square accused ERC of “botiflers”

The Les Moreres Fossaran emblematic location for independence in the celebration of the Diadahas lived this past morning moments of tension, boos at representatives of some parties and shouts of “botiflers” (traitors) at ERC leaders.

At the stroke of midnight, when hundreds of people gathered in this square in Barcelona to remember the resistance against the Bourbon troops that took the city of Barcelona on September 11, 1714, in the War of succession, the deputy general secretary of ERC, Martha Vilalta, arrived at the scene to participate in the usual round of political speeches. The ERC delegation -in which the former minister was Meritxell Serret– was received with whistles, insults and shouts of “botiflers” and “independence”, which continued during the speeches of the Republican leaders.

Vilalta responded to the boos: “You can yell, yell more if you like. Come on, we can’t hear you. Because while you yell, we, the people of ERC, will work to lead this country to freedom.”

Also the PDeCAT entourage received whistles and jeers from some of those attending the Fossar de les Moreres, while the party’s organization secretary spoke, Genis Boadella.

More placid, however, was the intervention of the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turullwho asked to park the “reproaches” between independentists and “mark an itinerary that says: independence or independence.”

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The tension in some moments of the concentration was also translated into a assault on a television camera, which was pushed by two women and made to fall to the ground. The camerawoman, a ‘freelance’ hired by TVE to cover the acts of the Fossar, was recording a scuffle between some protesters and the PDeCAT delegation when she suffered the push that threw her to the ground, for which she has filed a complaint with the Mossos.

In the first acts of this Sunday morning in relation to the Diada, all the political leaders asked about the scene have condemned the aggression.



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