{"id":329041,"date":"2017-10-05T03:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-king-demands-new-crackdown-in-catalonia\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T03:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T02:56:47","slug":"spanish-king-demands-new-crackdown-in-catalonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-king-demands-new-crackdown-in-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish king demands new crackdown in Catalonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Spanish king demands new crackdown in Catalonia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>4 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In an ominous address last night branding Catalonia an outlaw region of Spain, King Felipe VI denounced Sunday\u2019s Catalan independence referendum and demanded that the Spanish state seize control of the region.<\/p>\n<p>An open intervention by the Spanish king into public affairs is without precedent since the February 23, 1981 military coup, shortly after Spain\u2019s 1978 Transition to parliamentary democracy. Coming amid a vicious press campaign demonizing Catalonia after police repression failed to halt the referendum, the king\u2019s speech is a signal that plans for an even broader military-police intervention against Catalonia are being actively prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking the Catalan authorities for \u201cthreatening the social and economic stability of Catalonia and of Spain,\u201d Felipe VI said they had \u201csystematically undermined legally and legitimately approved norms, showing an intolerable disloyalty to the powers of the state. \u2026 These authorities, in a clear and unmistakable way, have placed themselves outside the framework of law and of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this situation, he continued, \u201cit is the responsibility of the legitimate powers within the state to ensure the constitutional order and the normal functioning of the institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The king\u2019s brief for a renewed onslaught against Catalonia is based on a tissue of lies. In fact, it is not the population of Catalonia, but the Spanish ruling elite that trampled democratic rights underfoot, sending in 16,000 <em>Guardia Civil<\/em> who brutalized firefighters, Catalan police, and even elderly women trying to vote, in a failed attempt to halt the referendum through physical terror.<\/p>\n<p>Videos showing the brazen repression of peaceful voters have spread across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/04\/span-o04.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spanish king demands new crackdown in Catalonia By Alex Lantier 4 October 2017 In an ominous address last night branding Catalonia an outlaw region of Spain, King Felipe VI denounced Sunday\u2019s Catalan independence referendum and demanded that the Spanish state seize control of the region. An open intervention by the Spanish king into public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}