Horn
16th September 2018, 03:19 PM
Wednesday, 12 Sep 2018
Organisers said 460,000 people registered to take part in the rally, while police in Barcelona put attendance at about 1 million, making it roughly the same size as last year’s event.
Once again, the independence movement demonstrated its extraordinary capacity to mobilise its base, filling about 6.5km of Diagonal, the city’s broadest street, with hundreds of thousands of flag-waving supporters dressed in T-shirts bearing the slogan: “We’re making the Catalan republic”.
With chants of “the streets will always be ours” and “independence”, the massive crowd assembled rather than marched in their allotted sections along the street.
Then at 5.14pm – to correspond with the year that Barcelona fell – there was silence, followed by a wave of sound that roared from one end of Diagonal to the other, where it symbolically toppled a wall representing direct rule that Madrid imposed for several months after the independence declaration last October was ruled unlawful.
https://m.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2163862/one-million-attend-rally-barcelona-call-catalan-independence-spain
Organisers said 460,000 people registered to take part in the rally, while police in Barcelona put attendance at about 1 million, making it roughly the same size as last year’s event.
Once again, the independence movement demonstrated its extraordinary capacity to mobilise its base, filling about 6.5km of Diagonal, the city’s broadest street, with hundreds of thousands of flag-waving supporters dressed in T-shirts bearing the slogan: “We’re making the Catalan republic”.
With chants of “the streets will always be ours” and “independence”, the massive crowd assembled rather than marched in their allotted sections along the street.
Then at 5.14pm – to correspond with the year that Barcelona fell – there was silence, followed by a wave of sound that roared from one end of Diagonal to the other, where it symbolically toppled a wall representing direct rule that Madrid imposed for several months after the independence declaration last October was ruled unlawful.
https://m.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2163862/one-million-attend-rally-barcelona-call-catalan-independence-spain