Spain Catalonia: Ballot papers for banned referendum to be seized

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Spain Catalonia: Ballot papers for banned referendum to be seized

12 September 2017 Europe

Catalonia's public prosecutor has ordered the seizure of all ballot papers ahead of a banned independence referendum deemed illegal.

The vote on breaking away from Spain, planned for 1 October, has been suspended by the constitutional court.

But Catalonia's pro-independence government says it will still go ahead.

As a result, the Public Prosecutor's Office instructed security forces to take everything which could help with the "consummation of the crime".

This includes promotional materials and the ballots themselves, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports (in Spanish).

-snip-

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41240613

[Jake Stern]

1. Why not?

Perhaps letting them have the referendum would be a nice gesture considering Spain spent almost four decades under the Franco regime trying to brutally suppress Catalonia's culture and language.