Instead it has opened a potentially damaging new division with suggestions that a fresh wave of arrests of Catalan nationalists may be unleashed. The report describes the huge but peaceful demonstrations organised by Catalan grassroots organisations as “sowing the seeds of hate towards the Spanish state”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mariano Rajoy: his treatment of the Catalan question as a legal, rather than political, matter has angered nationalists. “There is a separation of powers in Spain,” says Pablo Casado, a member of the Popular party communications department. “But this doesn’t mean they are manipulating the courts, only that they are using the existing legal means.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2017 21:00 UTC