As they had announced, several independence groups have taken advantage of the visit of the Kings to Catalonia, scheduled for this noon at the Poblet monastery (Tarragona), to show their rejection of the Monarchy.

The AVE line that connects Barcelona with Girona and Figueres has suffered sabotage by burning tires first thing in the morning on a section of track between these last two towns, which has affected four trains and 330 passengers. Antimonarchical symbols have appeared alongside the burned tires.

The visit of the Monarchs to Catalonia is marked by the restrictions linked to the outbreaks of Covid-19 throughout the Barcelona area and, as a backdrop, by the media storm that has unleashed the information that delves into the personal finances of the King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.

As every time Felipe VI steps on the community, there has been no shortage of demands for independence by the Government of the Generalitat, with its president Quim Torra at the head, and his spearheads, such as Òmnium Cultural or the Catalan National Assembly (ANC ), who have not missed the opportunity to call protest marches to Poblet, in the first case under the slogan "Catalonia has no King. Let us protect ourselves from Bourbons", and in the second with the call for the mobilization of all the mayors of the Conca de Barberà region, where the Cistercian abbey is located.

The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Poblet, in the northwest of the province of Tarragona, houses the tombs of the kings of the Crown of Aragon and is the only location visited today by Felipe VI and Doña Letizia, who postponed the planned meeting in Barcelona with the Círculo de Economía and the BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) until sanitary circumstances make it possible.The tour of the Monarchs through the autonomous communities will continue on Wednesday in Mérida (Extremadura), after an audience of Carsten Isensee, president of Seat, with the King.

The own president Torra last Friday wrote to the head of the Royal House, Jaime Alfonsín, to remind you that the restrictions and recommendations because of the coronavirus "are equally valid for any visitor to our country." In his letter, Torra did not hide his political aspirations, with Barcelona as the capital of the country "which you refer to as the Autonomous Community".

To further thin the environment, the Office of the President of the Catalan Government announced yesterday, just a few hours before receiving Felipe VI, that Torra is studying to file a complaint against "Juan Carlos de Borbón, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and all those who one way or another they have participated, helped, cooperated or covered up the corrupt practices in which the former head of the Spanish State and his environment were allegedly involved. "

In this same line, with even thicker words, the vice president of the Generalitat and national coordinator of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Pere Aragonès, said last Saturday in Montblanc - ten kilometers from Poblet-, before the ERC youth, that " the Bourbons are a criminal organization. " In his opinion, "the monarchy can only be corrupt by definition". "We are at a moment -exposed the vice president of the Govern- in which it is seen that the stability of the State begins to falter; this regime and this monarchy must be brought down and move towards the Catalan republic."

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