The presence of the constitutionalists has not been to the liking of the different independentist entities of Gerona which have organized a counter-demonstration that from the early hours of the morning has traveled the streets adjacent to the Plaza 1 de Octubre - previously called the Plaza de la Constitución and today armored by a police cordon-, with banners that could read Girona Antifascist or Fascism advances if it is not fought .

Around noon the counter-protesters, about 150, have reached the square where Societat Civil Catalana (SCC) had summoned its supporters on this 41st anniversary of the Magna Carta and tried to break the Mossos police line by throwing eggs at them, and causing a first Catalan police charge that has managed to disperse the radicals.

Subsequently, they have burned a copy of the Constitution and uprooted street furniture with the aim of making a barricade and preventing the passage of law enforcement through the old town. The initiative, however, has been recriminated by some neighbors .

At the same time, the SCC event, which has had the presence of about fifty people , including supporters and representatives from Vox and the PP, has developed without incident.

During the ceremony, the president of SCC, Fernando Sánchez Costa, and the journalist Anna Grau, who highlighted the importance of the Constitution for "living together, freedom, and democracy in our society . "

Finally, the act has culminated with the national anthem of Spain and the applause of the attendees who have waved the numerous rojigualdas that carried applause, without having repeated the violent clashes that occurred last year in Gerona, when an act convened by the Borbonia collective to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Constitution ended with a detainee and 20 people injured, 15 of them Mossos d'Esquadra.

"We are grateful to the Mossos who have protected us against the violent independents who intended to force us out of Girona. We will never stop defending democracy and coexistence in every corner of Catalonia," SCC has tweeted once the act has ended.

For their part, the self-appointed Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) have burned copies of the Spanish Constitution this morning before the Government Delegation where they had concentrated on the occasion of the Magna Carta party.

In his opinion, "they have nothing to celebrate" because the Spanish Constitution, which they call "Francoist", "all he does is imprison us and cut our freedoms. Therefore, all we can do with this obsolete pamphlet is ( fire emoticons) "

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