Pilar Rahola ‘overshadows’ the protest against the arrest of Puigdemont singing and dancing ‘Bella Ciao’

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Around 500 people have cut off the Diagonal avenue in Barcelona since the early hours of this Friday in protest at the arrest this Thursday night of the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont.

Have manifested in front of the Italian Consulate In the city and despite the fact that there were relevant figures of the independence movement, one figure has ‘risen’ above the rest, at least on a media scale and on social networks: Pilar Rahola.

The journalist has sung and spiritedly danced the ‘Bella Ciao’, a popular Italian song recognized as a hymn of the antifascist resistance, and has done it before the Italian Consulate in the city, place of the concentration in response to the arrest of the ex-president in Sardinia.

Rahola’s voice has resounded in a pro-independence meeting with banners that read ‘Independence’, ‘Shame’ or ‘1-O, I do not forget or forgive’.

“Our president”

A large group of protesters has approached two Mossos d’Esquadra vans that cut Aribau street while chanting “Puigdemont, our president”, “Out with the occupation forces”, “We demand the right to demonstrate” and “You do not deserve the ‘senyera’ you wear “.

Members of the three pro-independence parties have attended the rally, and the Vice President of the Government attended the meeting on behalf of the Government, Jordi Puigneró; the President of Parliament, Laura Borràs; the Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró; the Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon; the leader of Together, Jordi Sànchez, and the former minister and vice president of the party, Jordi Turull, greeted with applause.

From ERC, the first vice president of the Parliament, Alba Vergés; the Member of Parliament Jenn Diaz; the senator and deputy secretary general of Political Action, Sara Bailac; the Deputy Secretary General for Communication and Strategy, Oriol Lladó, and the president of the regional federation of Barcelona, Gerard Gómez del Moral.

And on the part of the CUP, the deputies in the Parliament participated in the protest Dolors Sabater and Carles Riera, among other members of the anti-capitalists.



Reference-www.elespanol.com

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