The visit of PP leader, Mariano Rajoy, and of PPC leader, Josep Piqué, to Granollers have ended in riots, because a hundred aprox. of young independent people have insulted the PP leaders and have obliged them to go protected by police after the event.
Duting it, both Rajoy and Piqué have accused the Secretary of PSC, José Montilla and the President of ICV, Joan Saura, of supporting these acts of boicot to PPC. IF some days ago Rajoy was booed in a market of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the visit yesterday to Granollers have been signalled out by the tension, because he had to leave the place in a party’s van as a gruop of young people, some of them were of “okupa” looks, insulted him and throw him some eggs.
When the meeting ended, the independent youngsters who had taken part in the act, have fought with aprox. twenty Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan autonomous police) in the near-by streets people who afterwards provoked some incidents, have positioned in the doors of the theatre with whistles and pans and have broken a cristal.
When they have seen this youths, who were carrying cartoons with slogans like “For the peace in Euskadi, PP stop”, Rajoy, out of Granollers”, Rajoy and Piqué have entered the place by a side door. Once inside, the two of them have been applauded by the militants, who have shouted in favor of “Spain, Catalonia and PP”.
La visita de Rajoy y Piqué a Granollers acaba con altercados causados por jóvenes independentistas | elmundo.es
Of course, this people are “pacifist” -except if you do not think like them- and democratic -except when you think different from them.
The link also contains a video of the attack.
UPDATE: What Montilla said was that this attacks were just a clamour against PP in Catalonia (the same justification that was given when the PP offices where assaulted and PP militants were slapped and insulted when the anti-Iraqi war campaign. Hispalibertas has an important summary of the events (in Spanish).
The President of PPC, Piqué has critisized the position of PSC -Socialists of Catalonia- Secretary general, Montilla, and have recommended him to condemn and not to justify these attacks. MPs from ERC (Leftist Republicans of Catalonia) have said the position of PP has costed “a very low price in Catalonia“. Joan Tardá has continued saying that, even if it’s nothing personal, Rajoy summarises all the things that are repudiated by the good people of Catalonia” (ehem, I do not see those guys who slap and insult as the “good people”…). Artur Mas, from CIU, added that these acts have “a very relative importance“. Durán I Lleida told Onda Cero Radio that those acts cannot be the reason to consider Catalonia as an “intolerant region or that do not accept democracy or freedom”.We have to remember that Arcadi Espada, the speaker from the new-born party, Ciutadans de Catalunya, was also slapped because of his opposition to the Catalonian Statute.
We have also known today that the Catalonian Generalitat (Autonomus Community) is fining shops with 1.800 euros if their tickets are written in Spanish .IF they do not comply with it, in two months they fine the firm or shop. In total, the Catalonian Community has earned since Dec. 2003, 212.450 euros.
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