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Senior official speaks out after seeing images of police intervention but says Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and his government are to blame The Spanish government has apologised for the policing of Sunday’s independence referendum but said the region’s political leaders were to blame for going ahead with the vote. [Read more].

• Sam Jones, Spain: government apologises for policing of Catalan referendum, The Guardian, October 6, 2017

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The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Thousands and thousands of people demonstrated outside the Barcelona headquarters of Spain’s national police force on Tuesday amid strikes in protest at police violence during the disputed referendum on Catalonian independence. Photo: AP.