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The word is taboo, but it slips, who knows if inexorably. For example, in Pau's 19-year-old speech: "Let's see, we are not violent, we are peaceful, peaceful people," he says. "But yes: self-defense. We are not going to allow a fascist state to do what it wants." "That," intervenes his friend Onofre , "peaceful resistance, but self-defense. It's a middle point that they force you to get, you don't do it because you want. Sometimes they force you." The two study Sociocultural Animation and no trace of anti-system aspect.

Nor does Nuria , a teacher, middle class, about 60 years old, from the center of Barcelona: "These kids are the future, they fight for what they believe in. And peacefully, but it is true that they are being repressed, and they can't sit down. " And less seems a member of the CDR Antonia , retired, 67, who, like the previous ones, is in the student and independence camp of the University Square: "Violence no, we are not violent, but if they hit you you can not stand. That never".

In the Faculty of Economics of the University of Barcelona, ​​very close to where the independence movement tried, by force, that the Kings could not deliver the Princess of Girona Awards, again the word of marras, in a huge mural, with photos of women and the slogan: "Invisibilization [of women, in this case] is violence".

Any interlocutor in Barcelona these days deplores the Friday of anger of October 18 in Via Laietana, but sometimes denying is often assumed. The language does not lie and the much-heard chorus of "we are not violent, but" suggests the obvious: Catalonia does not slip into violence, but towards a certain justification for it.

It is the slit of understanding, which happens to the self-proclaimed smile revolution . It is because of the "oppression" of the "Spanish fascist state", again in the words of the two 19-year-olds who open this information, or because "they are hitting our children", their elders of the independence side repeat like a mantra.

Ballot boxes located in the student camp, in the Plaza Universitat, in Barcelona. ALBERTO DI LOLLI

The same protagonists - but could be any others - put in words the two justifications for that embryonic tolerance. On the one hand, the "repression" does not matter if on the part of the Police and the Civil Guard, as of the Mossos d'Esquadra, now ominous judas after their sin of defending the current legality.

And, on the other, the concept of fashion in this 21st century Catalonia: "Spain is a fascist state," Pau tells EL MUNDO. "The State is the armed arm of fascism, so that they cannot tame you," the speaker this morning, Guillem Agulló , a 60-year-old man, an ERC election candidate in European past and father of a young man killed by neo-Nazis in Castellón in 1993.

It is a discourse that has penetrated to the bone: everything that does not agree with radical independence is inevitably fascist in today's Catalonia, and it is so important that the pluralism included in the Constitution is remembered: "Francoism also had laws," he says Cesc , 22, another of the young people of the camping.

The story of Nuria, the teacher of the beginning, who comes to bring to the congregates in the camping two large bottles of bath gel as "support" - every day a list of requests to "citizenship" by the campers is displayed -, gives another key: the Catalan political centrality is now in the radical left embodied by the CUP, which expects a result as unremarkable next Sunday, the first time it is presented to the generals.

"I am a neighbor from here next door, from Alto Raval, and I come to help these kids because they have helped us in our fight, which is to get a new outpatient in the neighborhood," says Nuria. "For that, the neighbors have met with all the parties, also with the PP and with Citizens. But nobody gives you a solution, nobody. You end up realizing that traditional politics does not give you an answer."

A sign with the legend: "Follamos? Hammer finds your sickle", in the camping, in Barcelona. ALBERTO DI LOLLI

The justification of violence comes, obviously, after another step already far away: tolerance and even militancy in disobedience. From the insumission to the payment of tolls on the highways to the arrival at the mayor's office of Ada Colau, civil disobedience activist. For not going back to the very long Catalan anarchist tradition, also present, with all kinds of symbology, with the echo of the Madrid Sun Camp of 15-M, which is the enclave created by students in the Plaza Universitat.

About 50 tents planted in the heart of Barcelona for a week, with kitchen, "inclusive" kit and "lilac point" against the attacks of "cisheteropatriarcado", and the passivity of the Mossos.

"These laws are not worth us, I have not voted for them and they are fascists," Pau and Onofre say, just as the independentist pickets told the rector of one of the Catalan universities to force her to close at the strike on October 18: "Stop talking to us about the law, the law is of no use."

The other grievance for which the justification of violence sneaks in perfectly exemplifies it with its own origins Antonia , the retired from the beginning. And the grievance is none other than the catalanophobia of "the plateau." "My mother was from a town in Valladolid, Matapozuelos, but she came here for the summer and caught my father. All her illusion in life was that her husband would keep her, and so it was. I was born here, and the truth is that I have not been there much, but well, in recent years I have tried to maintain the relationship, but the people of the Plateau are not like us, they are not open, they do not want to hear from us, they hate us, and it is hate .. how to tell you ... violent. "

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