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Police broke my fingers and touched my breasts - Victim cries
In a video footage, she was being manhandled as she tried to walk past armed police officers.
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Marta Torrecillas claimed the police had broken her fingers “one by one” and sexually attacked her while they laughed.
She was filmed being aggressively removed from a school in the city's upmarket Eixample area as Catalonia voted for independence yesterday.
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In the video, she was being manhandled as she tried to walk past armed police officers on a day when footage of police brutality that characterized the referendum, sparked outrage across the globe.
In the course of dragging her towards the exit, her dress was forced up around her thighs leaving her exposed and humiliated.
The footage emerged in relation to the political crisis in Spain following the decision of Catalan to be independent of Spain, after its officials claimed 90% of 2.2million voters had called for independence.
Catalans were voting in a referendum described by Spanish authorities as “illegal”, to decide on the independence or otherwise of Catala.
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Meanwhile, Spain's Justice Minister, Rafael Catala has warned that “If anyone plans to declare the independence of part of the territory of Spain, as it can't since it does not have the power to do so, we would have to do everything within the law to impede this.”
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