Hundreds of thousands of people waved flags and joined hands across Catalonia on Wednesday, in a show of popular force that Catalan leaders hope will revive their push for Spain’s economically most powerful region to secede from the rest of the country.
The human chain was formed on what Catalonia’s 7.5 million inhabitants
celebrate as their national day. Last year, hundreds of thousands
gathered on the same day in Barcelona, in northeastern Spain, in what
was the largest separatist event to date.
Organizers of this year’s event insisted that even more people joined
the demonstration, but official government figures were not immediately
available. The chain on Wednesday ran for 250 miles through villages in
the Pyrenees, close to the border with France, all the way to resorts on
the Mediterranean Sea.
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