Former Spanish home affairs minister testifies in trial
Juan Ignacio Zoido was in charge of Spain's law enforcement during violent crackdown of referendum
The former Spanish home affairs minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido (People's Party), testified on Thursday afternoon in the independence trial.
Zoido was in charge of Spain's law enforcement during the violent crackdown of the vote by Spanish police on October 1, 2017, which left 1,000 injured.
The former minister took the stand after several officials also testified in the morning, including the Basque president, Íñigo Urkullu, who said it was former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, who was the first to ask him to act as a "mediator" in the political crisis.
Barcelona's mayor, Ada Colau, also spoke on Thursday morning.
"If we are here for a referendum, there should be millions of people here," she said during her testimony.
Other Catalan officials spoke before the judge on Thursday morning, including MP in Congress Gabriel Rufián, and former MP in Parliament Albano Dante Fachin.