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Millions vote with their feet for break with Spain
Luke James witnessed one of the biggest political demonstrations in Spanish history calling for Catalan independence

After staging their third million-plus national day demonstration in as many years in Barcelona last Thursday, the Catalan people are gaining a reputation as the masters of spectacular political gestures. 

Waving Welsh flags with friends among a crowd equal to a quarter of the country’s population it was impossible to sense the full scale of the event. 

Only afterwards was it clear that people who formed a huge “V for vote” in the colours of the Catalan flag had created history with one of Europe’s largest ever demonstrations. 

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