The former leadership of the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan regional police, whose defendants are Major Josep Lluís Trapero, Pere Soler, Cèsar Puig, and Lieutenant Teresa Laplana, are acquitted by the National Audience of the crimes of sedition and disobedience for their role during the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. 2020-10-21
In Barcelona, 80,000 demonstrators take to the streets in protest of the Independent politics of the Catalan government and the violence of the last weeks' pro-independence protests, and for the unity and democracy of Spain. 2019-10-27
In a demonstration in Barcelona, 350,000 people protest prison sentences given to Catalan leaders. The protest turns violent with clashes with National Police Corps and Mossos d'Esquadra. 2019-10-26
The Government of Spain issues a statement acknowledging that there is "widespread and coordinated violence in Catalonia" and that its objective is "to guarantee security and coexistence [...] following its commitment of firmness, proportionality and unity". 2019-10-15
After a second day of mobilizations in Catalonia after the sentence of the independence leaders with cutroads and railways cuts, violent clashes take place in Tarragona, Barcelona, Girona, Sabadell and Lleida. 2019-10-15
Demonstrations and cut roads take place throughout Catalonia, with the largest taking place in Barcelona. The Committees for the Defense of the Republic calls for disobedience and popular revolt. 2019-10-14
The Catalan leaders who are imprisoned accused of rebellion, Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull, Jordi Sànchez and Josep Rull, are sworn in as members of the Congress of Deputies after being elected in the 28th April general election by an authorization of the Supreme Court. 2019-05-21