The deployment of up to 6,000 extra police in Catalonia during the affluent region's banned independence referendum cost the Spanish government 87 million euros ($118m), the country's interior ministe. Spain says police reinforcement during Catalan referendum cost $118m.
Speaking in the Spanish Senate, nationalist conservative Popular Party minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the money had gone towards the upkeep, accommodation and travel costs incurred by sending National Police and semi-militarized Civil Guard officers to reinforce Catalonia's local Mossos d'Esquadra police force in the days around the Oct. 1 independence referendum branded unconstitutional by Spain's judiciary.
The Spanish police employed brutal tactics in their operation to clear voters out of polling stations during the prohibited Oct. 1 ballot. All in vain. The referendum was held and more of 90 % of the voters said Yes to Independence.
Speaking in the Spanish Senate, nationalist conservative Popular Party minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the money had gone towards the upkeep, accommodation and travel costs incurred by sending National Police and semi-militarized Civil Guard officers to reinforce Catalonia's local Mossos d'Esquadra police force in the days around the Oct. 1 independence referendum branded unconstitutional by Spain's judiciary.
The Spanish police employed brutal tactics in their operation to clear voters out of polling stations during the prohibited Oct. 1 ballot. All in vain. The referendum was held and more of 90 % of the voters said Yes to Independence.
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