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The Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia supports the continuity of the independence protest that cuts daily on Meridiana Avenue in Barcelona for almost five months, despite the fact that the Mossos d'Esquadra have already initiated more than a hundred complaints related to the concentration .

On February 18, the actions of the Catalan regional police linked to the Meridiana court had resulted in the imposition of 129 complaints , according to the Minister of Interior of the Generalitat, Miquel Buch , in a parliamentary response sent to the group of Citizens and to which THE WORLD has had access.

Of these, 88 complaints are pending the initiation of a sanction file, 40 have been filed and one is being studied.

In addition, according to Buch in a second response, the Mossos have practiced seven arrests during the rally, which has been cutting off one of the main access and exit routes from Barcelona between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., with the consequent impact on traffic - 4,000 vehicles are damaged and nine bus lines diverted - and the inconvenience for the neighborhood and the merchants, who have been demanding for months the end of the separatist mobilization.

Despite personally recognizing that the alterations caused by the cut of the Meridiana have generated more than a hundred complaints, Buch guaranteed on Wednesday that the Government formed by JxCat and ERC will continue to protect the only independent concentration that has been carried out continuously since the Court Supremo released the conviction against the organizers of 1-O.

"A right to manifest is protected"

The top police officer of the Generalitat held in parliamentary headquarters to be applying the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court when it comes to guaranteeing the right to protest regarding the daily courts of the Meridiana.

"There is no illegality here, but a precious right like the one to manifest itself is protected, regardless of ideology. We guarantee them all, because we are Democrats," said the counselor to defend that there is no special collusion with separatist protesters, who have the personal support of the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra.

Last week they were applauded in Perpignan by Clara Ponsatí, the former Minister of Education escaped from the Spanish Justice, who leads the toughest wing of JxCat and also paid tribute to the "young people who won the battle of Urquinaona", street of Barcelona in the that the main riots were concentrated after the Supreme ruling.

Cs threatens to denounce Buch

The closed defense of the protest by the Government of the Generalitat is being fought by Citizens, who on Thursday again threatened Buch to denounce him before the Prosecutor's Office for his permissiveness before the "systematic cuts of public roads throughout Catalonia."

The deputy of the liberal formation, Matías Alonso , framed the reaction of his party in his will to "defend the thousands of Catalan citizens who are violated their rights arbitrarily and continuously."

"You, with your decisions, force us to resort to Justice, on behalf of citizens who are violated their rights," Alonso said, before claiming the Interior Minister for the last time: "Get down to work and end up this nonsense. Let all citizens can develop their activities in peace and freedom. "

First protest of Societat Civil

Catalan Civil Society also intends to counteract the permissiveness of the Government with the cuts of the Meridiana by making partial cuts in the Vallvidrera tunnels, another of the great routes of entry and exit of Barcelona.

The constitutionalist entity will cut this infrastructure for the first time this Friday, although it will do so for half an hour and allowing the circulation in the side roads, following the recommendation of the Interior Ministry of the Generalitat.

Initially, Catalan Civil Society had notified that it intended to completely block the tunnel between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. His claim is to repeat his now attenuated protest until the Government prevents the Meridiana from being interrupted daily by secessionism.

But not only the parties and the constitutional organizations demand the end of this concentration, they are also advised against by the Urban Guard of Barcelona and the Mossos d'Esquadra themselves, who have claimed in a report to modify the location of the independence protest to minimize their inconvenience.

The suggestions of the regional police have been ignored by Buch, as were the reports of the Mossos and the Catalan Traffic Service contrary to the so-called "marches for freedom."

The "marches for freedom"

They were maanifestations organized by the ANC that cut the main Catalan highways for three days to protest against the 1-O ruling. As EL MUNDO revealed, the Government of the Generalitat ignored its own police as it now does again in the Meridiana.

This newspaper also published how the demonstration that cuts daily a section of the Meridiana Avenue in Barcelona in protest of the conviction of the Supreme Court against the independence leaders was irregularly tolerated by the Department of Interior of the Generalitat for at least two months.

Buch admits in the response to Citizens that the protest was not even communicated - as is mandatory - until December 7. Since then, it is and the organizers have informed the Government that they will extend it, at least, until March 18.

His claim, however, is to keep it indefinitely and continue communicating to the Government continuous extensions to perpetuate the cuts in the Meridiana until the imprisoned independence leaders are released.

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