The Fossar de les Moreres, emblematic location for the independence movement in the celebration of the Diada, has experienced moments of tension this past morning, boos at representatives of some parties and shouts of “botiflers” (traitors) at ERC leaders.
At the stroke of midnight, when hundreds of people gathered at the Fossar de les Moreres to remember the resistance against the Bourbon troops that took the city of Barcelona on September 11, 1714, in the War of Succession, the assistant general secretary of ERC, Marta Vilalta, arrived at the place to participate in the usual round of political speeches.
The ERC delegation -in which the former Minister Meritxell Serret was – was received with whistles, insults and shouts of “botiflers” and “independence”, which continued during the speeches of the Republican leaders.
Vilalta responded to the boos: “You can yell, yell more if you like. Come on, we can’t hear you. Because while you yell, we, the people of ERC, will work to lead this country to freedom.”
The PDeCAT delegation also received whistles and boos from some of those attending the Fossar de les Moreres, while the party’s organization secretary, Genís Boadella, spoke.
More placid was the intervention of the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, who asked to park the “reproaches” between independentistas and “mark an itinerary that says: independence or independence”.
The tension in some moments of the concentration was also translated into an attack on a television camera, which was pushed by two women and made to fall to the ground.
The camera, a freelance hired by TVE to cover the Fossar acts, was recording a scuffle between some protesters and the PDeCAT delegation when it was pushed to the ground. The motive for the attack is still unknown. The camerawoman has filed a complaint with the Mossos.
The Diada celebrations began at ten o’clock last night on Saturday, the 10th, with torchlight marches in various Catalan towns, including Barcelona, ??in the Fossar de les Moreres.
