2018/03/15

Spanish military police raid Catalan cultural association, 8 people held

The vice president of Òmnium Cultural, Marcel Mauri, told the RAC1 radio station that the judge who ordered the raid of his organization’s HQ warned him not to call for protests outside the building if he wanted to avoid “charges of sedition and rebellion.”
Mauri called the police operation a “shameful attack” and challenged the need to raid his organization when its accounts are published on its website. Mauri said that it seemed to him as if the officers were looking for financial documents but the Òmnium vice president insisted that “they will not find evidence of any payments from the Catalan government.” Spanish military police is raiding the HQ and traffic is stopped as it was a paramilitary operation. Yet the raid of the HQ Òmnium Cultural, one of the two main pro-independence organizations in the country, is still underway. Seven of Òmnium’s workers and some members of its leadership are being held, with officers blocking and changing passwords of a number the organization’s email accounts.

Meanwhile military police has arrested the Catalan administration’s Secretary of Citizenship and Public Information, Antoni Molons. Spain’s Guardia Civil police started a police operation on the October 1st referendum on Thursday. Police officers entered the high-ranking Catalan government official's home and office during the operation. During the police operation, Molons was held in order to attend the raids.
The raid of the high-ranking Catalan official's office has come to an end. Meanwhile, around 100 people gathered in front of the headquarters of the Catalan government in Barcelona to protest against police's raids. 

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