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Within Barcelona , there is a central space, lost for everyday life, which in military jargon could be called «the theater of operations». This rugged area affects large hotels, neat design bars, international stores and some of the most beautiful examples of architecture. When one goes on foot to the center on avenues such as Aragon , even in the morning hours still tame, he knows that he is entering the operating theater because the breeze suddenly brings a different smell, burned plastic, and because on the asphalt the dark imprints left by the barricades on fire last night appear. The municipal cleaning services, whose work is subject to frustration such as Sisyphus these days, will have managed to remove the debris, rubble and broken glass, as well as the calcined skeletons of mopeds.

This Friday's strike had little impact outside those apples kidnapped by hooliganism. In neighborhoods such as Sants , supermarkets, veterinary clinics and cafes were open and people in the streets walked to the office. The traders who closed, where the coercive patots did not arrive, did so because they wanted to, and some left in the shop windows a sign that read: " Tancat per dignitat ." In the streets most exposed to the presence of the CDRs , some establishments closed, out of conviction or fear, or decided to try to open before the columns arrived, including international franchises that had reinforced their own security. Small merchants, owners of coffee shops, hairdressers or clothing stores, with fewer defensive resources, were open but with the blind halfway down just in case the events, or an intimidating visit, made it necessary to close suddenly. In some bars you had to hit the blind to enter, as in the secrecy of a " speakeasy ."

Throughout the morning, columns entered the streets. Some were huge, completing days of march on highways. Others, minors, were neighborhood or corporate, such as students or dockers. The influx to the Plaza de Cataluña and the Paseo de Gracia made it an eccentric hit by the mass to any walker who went in the opposite direction. At noon, the Passeig de Gràcia was filled with walkers, it could almost be said that of pilgrims of independence, who had lunch at the tartera sitting on the curbs and on the asphalt. The transversal crowd was formed, both in the generational and in the sociological, familiar, peaceful, which in recent years starred in the Diadas and served as an alibi to the "smile revolution." With this collective presence, although somewhat diminished when compared to the most febrile years of militancy, the independence movement showed that it is not an agonizing movement, that still vertebrates many thousands of people who are not troublemakers and come to the call.

However, after only a few days of fierce urban guerrilla televised for the world, no one can ignore that independence has been definitely exposed a violent nature that kept hidden as in the portrait of Dorian Gray . Efforts to justify or minimize this violence, or to assign the blame to the police, are attempts, full of intellectual dishonesty, to protect the beatific archetype of that independence movement that Imagine sang. While on the Paseo de Gracia the independence movement saw itself as it has been idealized, on the Layetana road his portrait of Dorian Gray opened the turn of violence with the assault of the Police Headquarters. As soon as they started through the streets of the Gothic and Born races, as soon as the radicals began, with their helmets and their ski or diving goggles, to steal pots from the bars to form barricades, the merchants were telling each other others that this time there was no choice but to close. The tongues of fire were already growing by then. The merchants lowered the blinds with an expression full of rage, some with tears and comforted by the owner of the adjoining establishment. The violence that, at an earlier time than usual, erupted around him corresponded with the one that could be observed the day before in the street of Valencia : harder and more organized, full of tactical resources, more willing to collide with the Police, less exercised by schoolboys and tourists of emotion. In those first attacks of what was announced as a long night of violence, some policemen left the line injured, sometimes unable to walk without the help of their companions.

The demonstration of this Friday was attended by far-left activists from other parts of Spain . That is why the republican tricolor flags abounded, a gigantic historical incongruity, possible only in a vision of things governed by ignorance, which nevertheless demonstrates that a part of the Spanish left, the one that seeks to blast the regime of the 78, has found accommodation in this cause of anti-Spain and does not disassociate itself from it even now that its violence increases, the civil confrontation is uncontrolled and configured. It is very likely that the commitment of that part of the Spanish left with the independence movement is largely due to the difficulty of accepting the violent chaos that spoils the credentials of moral superiority with which the independence movement anointed all the fugitives of the association of ideas Spain / Francoism that incredibly still influences the mentality of many born in the 21st century. Spain remains at the mercy of prejudices that it does not deserve. And while it burns.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Spain
• CDR
• Barcelona
• Violence Catalonia
• Proced judgment
• Catalonia independence

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