SP: Spanish political violence is out of all proportion
SP: Spanish political violence is out of all proportion
The actions of the Spanish police in Catalonia today must be condemned by the Dutch government and the European Union, insists SP Member of Parliament Renske Leijten. “The pictures of unarmed people, with their hands up, being pulled over and thrown to the ground by the Spanish military police, are a bombshell. This violent attack against one’s own people has no place in a democracy.”
Leijten is calling on government leaders to find a peaceful way out of this impasse and to do all in their power to bring the two sides in Spain back to the negotiating table. “The referendum is a Spanish question, a sovereignty issue,” she says. “But there’s also how you evaluate the referendum. Today’s violence is unprecedented and there’s no basis for it. We can’t accept that, certainly not in the European Union”