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Voters occupy polling stations as Madrid declares Catalan referendum illegal

| updated on 10/1/17 1:01 PM
Photo: EPA/BGNES

Early on Sunday voters in Catalonia started gathering in front of polling stations in order to protect the planned independence referendum from police crackdown after Madrid declared the referendum was illegal. According to authorities in Catalonia some 5.3 million people have the right to vote. 

Despite both Madrid and Barcelona declared peace and order would be kept, during the day there were reports of rubber bullets fired in Barcelona as  police stormed a polling station to stop the voting.



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