Mass March in Spain against amnesty for Catalan separatists

Subject: IR

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Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested in Madrid against possible plans by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to grant an amnesty to Catalan separatists.
Withdrawing criminal cases against the separatists would amount to granting an amnesty to “coup plotters”.

Some facts about Catalonia:

Catalonia is an autonomous community in the north-eastern corner of Spain.
Catalonia consists of four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona.
It is bordered by France (Occitanie) and Andorra to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the east, and the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon to the west and Valencia to the south.
Since the 2010s there has been growing support for Catalan independence. On 27 October 2017, the Catalan Parliament declared unilateral independence following a disputed referendum.