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  • Serve citizens.
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    [Mr Rajoy’s] deployment of policeman to suppress the Catalan vote was not only a propaganda gift to them but, more important, crossed a line. Aggression against crowds of peaceful citizens may work in Tibet but cannot be sustained in a Western democracy. In the contest between formal justice and natural justice, natural justice wins eventually…

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  • Scaring the population.
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    There were thousands of riot cops on hand, on ships in the harbour. If Madrid had wanted to, it could have confiscated every ballot box within minutes and, for good measure, jammed the smartphone app the Catalan authorities were using to tally the results against the electoral roll. But prime minister Mariano Rajoy wanted to…

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  • OSZE kritisiert Überfälle der spanischen Polizei.

    Die Direktorin des OSZE-Büros für demokratische Institutionen und Menschenrechte, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, findet eindeutige Worte, um das Vorgehen spanischer Polizeikräfte gegen die Referendumteilnehmerinnen in Katalonien zu rügen. OSZE-Mitglieder wie Spanien hätten sich zur Einhaltung von Grundrechten verpflichtet, die Anwendung von Polizeigewalt müsse stets verhältnismäßig sein, warnte sie. Die vollständige Stellungnahme: WARSAW, 2 October 2017 – Ingibjörg…

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