Regional premier Carles Puigdemont, his deputy Oriol Junqueras, and their entire governing team (including the rare few department heads who supposedly oppose their boss’s plans, but who remain strictly silent about it in public) are responsible for the public disorder and the break with the law – and they must be held responsible before the relevant political and judicial bodies. They called on citizens to vote in a ballot that lacked the necessary legal guarantees and entailed a personal safety risk. They organized the illegal event in partnership with civil associations (ANC, Òmnium) which they themselves funded, using clandestine techniques of urban geography control more typical of other parts of the world. Neither the use of force nor the praise which may come from some quarters can ever turn their irregular, fraudulent consultation into a valid referendum.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/04/inenglish/1507106015_046240.html
