5 days before the referendum to be held at 1 October about the independence of Catalonia
More restrictions on freedom of expression
Yesterday about ten people and private organizations were visited by the police or Guardia Civil (GC). They will have to declare at the public prosecutors office because they cloned the official websites of the Catalan Government concerning the referendum on independence. The official site is closed after the law of referendum was declared non-constitutional, but it may freely be published by private organizations and citizens.
Also the Internet site of Assemblea Nacional Catalunya (ANC), the private organization of the independence movement, has been closed yesterday night by the GC, even without any notice beforehand as required by Spanish law. During the last hours about 140 private websites related to the referendum have been closed. Meanwhile the European Commission, by means of Margaritis Schinas, declares it concerns an internal Spanish affair, as usual. Even after repetitive questions that fundamental rights are vulnerated in Catalunya.
Announcement imprisonment president Puigdemont
The head of the Spanish public prosecutor, José Manuel Maza, did yesterday not exclude the possibility to arrest Catalan president Puigdemont. He said this during an interview at radio channel Onda Cero. Though at this moment it is not the most convenient moment, as his imprisonment will be taken as an argument for the independence movement. He prefers to take action after 1 October, the date of the referendum. The public prosecutor is performing as a politician here. Maza does not even hide anymore he is vulnerating the three pillars of democracy.
Refusement Catalan police
The Catalan police, Mossos d’Esquadra, refuses to hand over its command to the head of the GC and third man at Internal Affairs, Diego Pérez de los Cobos, who is also the brother of ex-president of the Constitutional Court. It’s all in the family.