'It was a forbidden political activity': ex-Catalan police official on indy referendum

<p>The Catalan police official responsible for planning and security at the time of the 2017 independence referendum, Emili Quevedo, <a href="../../../../../catalan-trial/item/catalan-police-urged-government-to-call-off-referendum-says-former-official" target="_blank">has told Spain's Supreme Court</a> that the law&nbsp;enforcement body "didn't like some of the remarks" by the then-interior minister Joaquim Forn. "He said that] Catalan police would act on October 1 as in any normal election," recalled Quevedo, adding that "we couldn't treat it like a normal election, because it was a forbidden political activity."</p> / ACN

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March 11, 2019 01:25 PM