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📰Financial Times📰

📺Televised trial of #Catalan secessionists set to reignite passions

⚖Courtroom drama comes at delicate time for coalition government

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📃The declaration of independence was not ratified or published in the official gazette of the Generalitat

🕵The charges ARE rebellion, sedition, disobedience and misuse of public funds

🙈Lazy: "Fled", "One of Spain's wealthiest regions", etc

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🔥"Hardcore separatists come to the fore" - there's been non-violent direct action (cf. #GiletsJaunes)

🕵A family affair: the Pérez de los Cobos - Falangist family, Fuerza Nueva in youth and it was Francisco's brother, Diego, who gave the order to beat Catalan voters on #1Oct

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💥Despite some clashes between demonstrators and police the pro-independence movement is broadly peaceful

💱"They used govt resources to pervert the rule of law" while the Spanish govt was in charge of finances and deny that any such spending took place. Montoro: "Not €1"

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🗣No Spanish political party's made any attempt to find a political solution

They chose the judicial path. Since Sept 2017 the fate of #Catalan independentists has been in the hands of the #Spanish judiciary, police and prison service

💣Sánchez intervened supporting Art. 155

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Despite the FT's Fuerza Nueva sources - Fuster-Fabra, Josep Ramon Bosch, Francisco Pérez de los Cobos - the coverage is still better than The Guardian's, which is non-existent

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