Spanish Military Police arrest seven in purge on Catalan activists

The Spanish State now trivializes terrorism to criminalize Catalonia’s independence bid. Spanish Military Police (so called Guardia Cicil) arrested yesterday seven in purge on Catalan activists of the Committees in Defence of the Republic (CDR), a peaceful moviment of civil disobedience. The arrests included a woman the force says is suspected of terrorism – in a crackdown on protests associated with the push for independence. The woman is said to be Tamara Carrasco, a member of the Defence Committees of the Republic (CDR), a network of grassroots peaceful pro-independence protest groups. She was arrested in the town of Viladecans, near Barcelona, and transferred to Madrid’s National Court on charges of terrorism and rebellion.There are no Spanish courts in Catalonia to judge her...