Mossos ordered to cordon off polling stations and block access
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 @ 7:48 PM
CATALUNYA'S police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra has been ordered to seal off all polling stations and a 100-metre radius around them to prevent voting on October 1 in the 'illegal' independence referendum.
Now that the State has taken control of the Mossos, they are required to follow orders from the ministry of the interior and not from Catalunya's regional government.
However, the order to block access to polling stations has come from the prosecution in Catalunya, led by José María Romero de Tejada who issued the orders last week for the national government to seize jurisdiction of the Mossos.
Mossos chiefs, although they admit they have little choice but to obey orders from the regional prosecution, say trying to stop the voting altogether – even in the street outside the polling stations – could lead to 'serious public disturbance issues'.
Already, many officers have been around the voting stations to identify and interrogate their team leaders and seize documents, ballot slips, and even ballot boxes and computers.
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