Catalan referendum: Riot police 'fire rubber bullets' at crowd as they block voters at besieged polling stations
Spanish police in riot gear seized ballot boxes and surrounded activist-held polling stations in Catalonia Sunday as thousands flooded the streets to vote in an independence referendum banned by Madrid.

As the vote officially opened, scenes of chaos erupted as police began moving in to prevent people from casting their ballots, forcing their way into one sports centre in the town of Girona where the region's separatist leader was due to vote.

Video footage from journalists on the ground appeared to show police firing rubber bullets at the crowd outside the Ramon Llull polling station in Barcelona, with one person said to have been injured.

Several people have suffered minor injuries, including cuts and bruises, as National Police and Guardia Civil security forces push their way through crowds of referendum supporters to access the interior of polling stations.

Spain’s interior ministry has asked people not to obstruct members of the security forces as they seize electoral material from polling stations across Catalonia, appealing for “cooperation and respect so that a direct court order can be enacted peacefully”.

mrphysics:
The Spain's highest court have ruled the proposed Sunday referendum illegal.

Spain have since then arrested Catalonia leaders

To some people, Spain is a unity begging country. Lol.

freeze001:
Rubber bullets...no matter what, humanity and personal dignity is upheld but in this zoo, u are mauled with live ammunition like wild animals hunting for prey.

DaBullIT:
Well, they didn't attack the police or army that's for sure

they didn't come out with molotov cocktails and dangerous weapons


And they definitely haven't been threatening President of Spain , if you want to compare spain to Nigeria , then you must learn to abide by the rules of your country

RZArecta:
They're lucky it's rubber bullets etc, the ídiot in Aso rock would have ordered live bullets and dancing pythons on their Catalan assés

freeze001:
Rubber bullets...no matter what, humanity and personal dignity is upheld but in this zoo, u are mauled with live ammunition like wild animals hunting for prey.

DaBullIT:
Well, they didn't attack the police or army that's for sure

they didn't come out with molotov cocktails and dangerous weapons


And they definitely haven't been threatening President of Spain , if you want to compare spain to Nigeria , then you must learn to abide by the rules of your country

freeze001:
Rubber bullets...no matter what, humanity and personal dignity is upheld but in this zoo, u are mauled with live ammunition like wild animals hunting for prey.

RZArecta:
They're lucky it's rubber bullets etc, the ídiot in Aso rock would have ordered live bullets and dancing pythons on their Catalan assés

Nightwolf1:
Rubber bullets and one person injured? Oh God of mercy. In the zoo expect live ammunition and mass killing. Thereafter they tag you terrorist.

Zoogeria is an animal Kingdom no doubt

Yyeske:
The police will definitely use rubber bullets and treat them with some form of respect since they've never called for the killing of other Spaniards, never threatened to kill their head of state, destroy their country unlike some hate filled miscreants and terrorists who must attack and provoke armed soldiers and got what they wished.

freeze001:
Rubber bullets...no matter what, humanity and personal dignity is upheld but in this zoo, u are mauled with live ammunition like wild animals hunting for prey.

Paperwhite:
Acts of this kind tends to fuel more radical agitation.People have the fundamental right of association.

DaBullIT:
Well, they didn't attack the police or army that's for sure

they didn't come out with molotov cocktails and dangerous weapons


And they definitely haven't been threatening President of Spain , if you want to compare spain to Nigeria , then you must learn to abide by the rules of your country