The Scotsman

‘The older generation are very upset... they’re reminded of Franco’

Eyewitness Joanna Cherry

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Joanna Cherry, the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West, was among parliament­arians from around the world acting as observers at the invitation of the public diplomacy council of Catalonia, Diplocat.

Yesterday she described a “palpable sense of fear” as rumours spread in towns outside Barcelona of imminent raids by the Spanish Guardia Civil, and described the aftermath of one polling station being broken into by police who attacked elderly voters with batons.

“I started this morning very early in Barcelona at a polling station in the inner city. We arrived before the polls opened and there was a huge

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