“[The king] excluded the millions of Catalans who voted for independence,” Puigdemont said. It was a mistake.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Catalan independence supporter protests against King Felipe’s visit to Barcelona this week. That was a misleading statement from the Spanish state but I only knew that afterwards. The Spanish state, he said, had conducted negotiations three times with the Basque separatist group Eta, which carried out bombings and killings. It’s not about flags or [ethnic] identities.”Puigdemont traces his desire for Catalan independence back to his family’s humiliating experiences under Franco’s dictatorship.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2018 16:45 UTC