Spain: government apologises for policing of Catalan referendum
2017-10-07 06:33:35 source：The Guardian
October 6, 2017
The Spanish government has apologised for police violence during Sunday’s Catalan independence referendum but said the region’s political leaders were to blame because they had decided to push ahead with the vote.
The comments from Enric Millo, the government’s most senior representative in Catalonia, were the first apology from a Spanish government official over the officers’ behaviour. The Catalan government says hundreds of people were injured after Spanish police attempted to stop the vote by raiding polling stations, beating voters and firing rubber bullets at crowds.
King Felipe of Spain did not mention the police force’s actions when he addressed the country on Tuesday evening.
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