There were chants of “Puigdemont, president” from the crowd that was estimated by police to number 45,000. Many people were draped in Catalan flags; some carried placards criticising the European Union for not putting pressure on Madrid. One sign showed the face of the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, with the question: “Democracy? “Brussels is a kind of a loudspeaker for us,” said Gloria Cot, a clerk from Barcelona at Thursday’s march. “What is not permissible under the rule of law is to just ignore the law.”

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2017 23:03 UTC