Kurzweil
JF-Expert Member
- May 25, 2011
- 6,622
- 8,427
Raia wa Jimbo la Catalan mapema leo walijitokeza kupiga kura ya maoni itakayoamua iwapo Jimbo hilo lijitoe kutoka himaya ya Hispania.
Hata hivyo mamlaka ya utawala wa Hispania ilisema kuwa kura hiyo haina uhalali kwakuwa imezuiwa na Mahakama ya Katiba ya nchi hiyo.
Hali imebadilika ghafla katika viunga vya Catalan baada ya kuzuka kwa ghasia zilizotokana na mapambano ya Polisi na Raia.
Takribani watu 38 wamejeruhiwa ktk mapambano ya Polisi na Wananchi wa Jimbo la Catalan wanaotaka kupiga kura ya kujitenga na Hispania.
========
Spanish riot police clashed with Catalan voters in Barcelona on Sunday as the controversial referendum on breaking away from Spain began.
Spanish national police began to seize ballot boxes and voting papers from Catalan polling stations, the Interior Ministry said.
An Al Jazeera correspondent at one confrontation saw several people with bleeding faces after they were beaten by security forces. Some people who attempted to vote and fought with riot police were taken away in ambulances after being injured.
Anger in Madrid at Catalonia referendum
At another polling station, would-be voters chanted "we are people of peace" and "we are not afraid". Half a dozen armoured police vans and an ambulance stood ready nearby, the witness said.
Catalans were defying rain and police orders to leave designated polling booths as the referendum got under way on the region's secession that has challenged Spain's political and institutional order.
Organisers have asked people to block entrances and use passive resistance during voting, which started 9am (07:00GMT).
Spanish riot police smashed their way into a polling station in Sant Julia de Ramis, near the Catalan city of Girona, where Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was expected to vote.
Civil Guard officers with shields used a hammer to smash the glass of the front door and lock cutters to force their way in. Scuffles erupted outside between police and people waiting to vote.
A video on the El Pais newspaper's website showed helmeted riot police in a standoff with a group of angry voters at one Barcelona school. Voters raised their hands and shouted "out".
Police have been ordered not to use force but to empty schools where polling stations deemed illegal have been set up.
"The government today is in a position to affirm that we can celebrate the referendum of self-determination - not as we wanted, but [it will have democratic] guarantees," Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull told a news conference on Sunday.
People were concentrating in doors and hallways to block the entrance by riot police. Pictures from other voting stations showed crowds grouped in formation outside.
Source: Al Jazeera
Hata hivyo mamlaka ya utawala wa Hispania ilisema kuwa kura hiyo haina uhalali kwakuwa imezuiwa na Mahakama ya Katiba ya nchi hiyo.
Hali imebadilika ghafla katika viunga vya Catalan baada ya kuzuka kwa ghasia zilizotokana na mapambano ya Polisi na Raia.
Takribani watu 38 wamejeruhiwa ktk mapambano ya Polisi na Wananchi wa Jimbo la Catalan wanaotaka kupiga kura ya kujitenga na Hispania.
========
Spanish riot police clashed with Catalan voters in Barcelona on Sunday as the controversial referendum on breaking away from Spain began.
Spanish national police began to seize ballot boxes and voting papers from Catalan polling stations, the Interior Ministry said.
An Al Jazeera correspondent at one confrontation saw several people with bleeding faces after they were beaten by security forces. Some people who attempted to vote and fought with riot police were taken away in ambulances after being injured.
Anger in Madrid at Catalonia referendum
At another polling station, would-be voters chanted "we are people of peace" and "we are not afraid". Half a dozen armoured police vans and an ambulance stood ready nearby, the witness said.
Catalans were defying rain and police orders to leave designated polling booths as the referendum got under way on the region's secession that has challenged Spain's political and institutional order.
Organisers have asked people to block entrances and use passive resistance during voting, which started 9am (07:00GMT).
Spanish riot police smashed their way into a polling station in Sant Julia de Ramis, near the Catalan city of Girona, where Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was expected to vote.
Civil Guard officers with shields used a hammer to smash the glass of the front door and lock cutters to force their way in. Scuffles erupted outside between police and people waiting to vote.
A video on the El Pais newspaper's website showed helmeted riot police in a standoff with a group of angry voters at one Barcelona school. Voters raised their hands and shouted "out".
Police have been ordered not to use force but to empty schools where polling stations deemed illegal have been set up.
"The government today is in a position to affirm that we can celebrate the referendum of self-determination - not as we wanted, but [it will have democratic] guarantees," Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull told a news conference on Sunday.
People were concentrating in doors and hallways to block the entrance by riot police. Pictures from other voting stations showed crowds grouped in formation outside.
Source: Al Jazeera
