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"Endavant [Go ahead], Anna!" Shouted the laughter. And Anna, Anna Rosselló, 96 years old, wheelchair, stellar as a blanket on her knees, silver mane 'al vent', she sang the 'els carrers will be forever' ('the streets will always be ours'), waving arms , distributed smiles and took pictures with every neighbor's son, burning the mobs.

As in a 'rauxa' of a century ago, almost when she was born, but right now, in 2019, this Monday in the Diagonal of Barcelona, ​​facing the icy look of the riot of the 'mossos d'esquadra', present in disciplined cord to protect the "Bourbon", just a few meters from Rosselló. That was, in short, in all the 'scrubbing': around him he insulted and was intimidated to those who tried to enter as guests in the Princess of Girona awards.

The scene perfectly defined the generational mixture that is marking this autumn of anger 'indepe', and that again met in Barcelona, ​​this time without disturbances, to "fight", pans and lighters in hand, to the Kings in front to the Palau de Congressos: again, young people in their twenties and Catalans 50 years and up essentially about 5,000 in total.

And at the forefront she, the 'indepe' Methuselah, in a truly hot zone, personalizing in itself everything that this autumn of 'indepe' anger owes to the anarchist tradition of Barcelona, the 'Rose of Fire' which, according to Azaña (paraphrasing Espartero), in the end, by ax or by be, we don't get rid of having to bomb every 50 years.

Rosselló, writer, learned in Esperanto (remember?), Mascot of the ramshackle and yet almost unable to be heard (because of the constant cacerolada), thus embodied the two generations that shake hands in the protests: the young , that Franco did not live even the No-do, and the elders, who may know him too well to say that he is still alive, but that is flour from another sack.

Escape to Brazil because of the Francoist repression in 1956 according to the independence historiography, Rosselló wandered during the following years, before ending up yesterday in the Diagonal, through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico documenting - Here is the key - the stumbling blocks of the Spanish Empire against Native Americans. Hence the relevance of his presence on Monday against the current monarch, depositary of that legacy for independence, for which 1714 (the capture of Barcelona by Felipe V) is the day before yesterday and the historical becoming a flexible, almost fluid concept .

After this, Rosselló returned to Spain, where in 1975 he denounced the tortures received by his daughter Carme, a militant of Catalan Revolutionary Youth, at the Vía Laietana police station, and dedicated himself to writing ... Until this greening of independence took almost hugging the century, but with enough strength to go see the face of the mossos.

Roselló was on Monday, in short, the most picturesque element of this sort of 'indepe' theme park that every mobilization in Catalonia has become in the autumn of the post-1 sentence.

Thus, in the Diagonal, there was how not to burn photos of the "Bourbon", as he likes the independence of qualifying Felipe VI. There was also an eternal cacerolada that for example recorded excrescences as an implacable 'yayobatucada' in the mouth of the University Zone subway. There was also all the usual memorabilia of independence: the stelae, the petty-looking bourgeois ladies hugging with crested punks (this is literal), and all the most typical clichés of the self-styled "anti-fascism."

The mossos also wanted to 'join' even passively to the act, and warned the congregants twice on public address not to throw objects at them, under penalty of burden in an area that for the hooded youth was of clear disadvantage . The crowd booed them, the hooded boys swaggered in front of them, and here peace and then glory.

Of course slogans of all kinds were recorded against the Kings - "even the Bourbons" and things like that - and also against the 'mossos' - "without farlopa you are nothing" -, until around 19.30 the elders were abandoning the place -Rosselló even before- and the young people remained.

There was then an interesting 'impasse'. The burning of photos of the Royal Family had become an appreciable bonfire, with flames three meters high in the heart of the Diagonal (also fed with several branches of surrounding trees), and around it formed a huge ring of protesters In the background, the tribal sound of the incombustible, unstoppable pan, a kind of sound intifada. And the faces of those present were suddenly hypnotized by the fire. As if facing violence, or even its possibility. Then, perhaps tired or lulled by the flames, little by little, the congregates left, probably to their homes, probably for dinner.

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