Massive rally for Catalonia's Independence with 750,000 people

750,000 Catalan independence supporters rally in Barcelona for National Day of Catalonia yesterday. The rally came weeks ahead of the highly anticipated verdict from the Supreme Court in a case against 12 democratic leaders on charges including rebellion. This was the eighth successive pro-independence demonstration held on the National Day. Some 1,200 buses traveled to Barcelona from across Cataloni. The Massive Catalan independence march called for unity as trial verdict approaches.

Under the motto Objectiu independència (Objective independence), this year's demonstration aimed for the people taking part to form a huge star shape that will be visible from the air, and converging on a square. The Catalan National Assembly, ANC, leader admitted that yesterday's concentration was "the most difficult" of all those organized by her entity. Paluzie recognized "discouragement and disenchantment for the divisions of political parties" and justified the puncture for the absence of horizons for an independence that had previously manifested before the 9-N consultation or the 1-O referendum. «Now we don't know what we are going to do. We were all against it, ”he insisted before demanding“ unity to finish what we started. ”

The platform 'Democratic Tsunami' (Catalan: Tsunami Democràtic) will plan actions to respond to the verdict which is expecting in the coming weeks. The flags were hung by volunteers from the fire brigade and were shown to the gathered crowd around 6 pm as the Catalan national anthem rang out.

The group was formed on September 2 to give a "disobedient" and "non-violent" response to the sentence. The initiative made its first action last Thursday after having been publicly presented through social networks. Members of the platform unfolded 11 banners in emblematic places in Lleida, Tarragona, Girona, Badalona, ​​Tortosa, Terrassa, and Barcelona, and 15,000 posters have been put up all over the country.