The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, met this Wednesday in Mérida with the president of the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola, to convey Catalonia’s solidarity with the whole of Spain, especially regarding regional financing, and to reaffirm the ties that unite both communities as a result of the migration process that took place last century, which caused more than 100,000 people from Extremadura to emigrate to Catalonia.

At the Barcelona Court, the only trial for the police charges of October 1st began this Wednesday. On the defendants’ bench sit four National Police officers – three commanders and a shotgunner – accused of a serious injury crime for having given the order to shoot a rubber bullet that hit Roger Español, a man who was protesting the seizure of the ballot boxes and who lost the vision in one eye. The defendants were denied the application of the amnesty law, considering that the loss of a main organ is one of the circumstances excluded from the regulation.

La Guardia Civil has dismantled a makeshift apartment in Ceuta where more than twenty people who entered the autonomous city irregularly during the mass crossing were staying overnight. The 25 migrants, among whom were six minors, lived in very precarious conditions, “with no sanitary conditions,” according to the armed institute.

Nine years after the police charges on October 1, four National Police officers are sitting in the dock for the serious injuries they caused to Roger Español, a protester who was hit by a rubber bullet and lost sight in one eye. The events took place during the operation deployed near the Ramon Llull school, in the Fort Pienc neighborhood of Barcelona. This is the only case opened against National Police officers for the charges carried out against the voters of October 1.