The Catalan Referendum

The 1^st October 2017 a football match in Camp Nou was played without spectators because all the police was in the street due to the referendum in Catalonia, so if they had a problem the police couldn’t attend. Another reason was to protest about democracy. Gerard Piqué (a Barça football player) complained and helped Catalan people to protest about the referendum.

A lot of people went to schools to vote in the referendum and to avoid the police taking up the ballot boxes. People held their hands up because they didn’t want violence but the police started beating people and picking up the ballot boxes. All started because the government of Spain forbade people to vote for the independence. Because of this, a lot of people started to demonstrate and took part in an illegal referendum. The National Police and Guardia Civil started to take up the ballot boxes with violence and Els Mossos d’Esquadra who are Catalan helped the population. It was a terrible day and a historic day too…

Sergi and Lluc