Spain: demonstration in Barcelona after the dismissal of Quim Torra
In Barcelona, the pro-independence president of Catalonia, Quim Torra, and his wife after the Spanish Supreme Court declared him ineligible for 18 months on September 28, 2020. REUTERS / Nacho Doce
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On Monday, September 28, the Spanish Supreme Court dismissed Catalan President Quim Torra by upholding his sentence of one and a half years of ineligibility.
In Barcelona, a few hundred demonstrators gathered at the end of the day to say goodbye to him.
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From our correspondent in Barcelona
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Élise Gazengel
Hundreds of independentists gathered on Monday in Sant Jaume Square in Barcelona after the announcement of the dismissal of Catalan President Quim Torra for disobedience.
Spanish justice accuses the Catalan leader of
having displayed a sign
in favor of Catalan prisoners on the facade of the presidential palace, in the midst of the electoral campaign despite the ban.
A reason described as a ridiculous excuse by Joan Malaret: "
For a sign, to dismiss a president, in addition in the midst of a pandemic, with all these problems, is to cause additional instability in the country
".
Quim Torra accepts the decision
This sign, Quim Torra moreover exhibited it on this same place in front of the demonstrators who asked him to disobey.
But in his speech a few minutes earlier, the resigned Torra had finally accepted the verdict.
What angered María Castellvi.
“
In his speech he accepted an unfair sentence and we are asked to go out into the streets and fight.
But Torra, today, he didn't struggle,
”she said.
After a last walkabout, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Torra has definitively left her post.
From now on, its vice-president will assume the interim with very little power pending the next elections.
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