In Madrid, they gathered for Catalonia | Chronic

Thousands of people demonstrated in the center of Madrid in favor of "self-determination" of the Catalonia region and against the lawsuit of 12 Catalan sovereign rulers who was followed to the Spanish Supreme Court by the process of "self-determination" of the Catalan region. Independence of 2017, considered illegal by the government and the justice of Spain.

The President of Catalonia, Independence Quim Torra, several members of his government and sovereignist parties participated in the demonstration, convened by more than 60 social organizations, separatists, republican and anti-fascist entities with the slogans "Self-determination is not a crime" and " Democracy, it is decide ".

The right-wing People's Party (PP), to the same extent, regarded the protest as a "horde", and said that the chief of the executive, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, "seeks to revalidate" his pact with "separatist communists, Batasunos and Podemos" After the general elections of April 28, Ansa agency.

Torra asked Spain to listen to the "cries of freedom" and "D & # 39; independence" of the demonstration called in Madrid by more than sixty collectives against the trial of "trial" and warned: "We will not stop, they will not stop us either".

Many participants came with independence flags, ballot boxes and independence posters, mostly with slogans in Catalan and favorable messages. "Catalan Republic" and the freedom of leaders in pre-trial detention and those who have fled the Spanish judicial system.

In addition to the Catalan demonstrators, supporters of the independence of Madrid and other regions of Spain were also present, convinced of the "Dialogue and democracy" in front of "Authoritarian and repressive drifts"because this judgment is "policy" and "against all the people of Catalonia"according to the organizers.

Those of Catalonia have joined the Spanish capital with more than 500 buses and several high-speed trains, as well as pbadenger cars, said the Spanish news agency EFE. About 500 agents of the Spanish National Police ensured the security of the demonstration. Another concentration contrary to the Catalan independence movement and in favor of the unity of Spain had occurred a few hours earlier, also in Madrid.

Since 12 February, the TS has been ruling Catalan separatist leaders for the call and the organization of a referendum "Self-determination" on 1 October 2017 and a subsequent unconstitutional parliamentary declaration in favor of the unilateral independence of Catalonia.

The prosecution is seeking sentences ranging from seven to twenty-five years in prison for crimes of rebellion, embezzlement and disobedience, while the Attorney General has reduced them to seven to twelve years, accusing them of sedition – and not rebellion of other crimes.

The former Regional Vice President Carles Puigdemont, who ruled at the time on Catalonia, and six other sovereign rulers have been fugitives abroad for more than a year. Last July, they were declared in absentia by the TS and are under investigation in another lawsuit.