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Spanish photographers yell insults at the Catalan government officials as they are released from prison, for not allowing photographers to take pictures of them in their cars. One photographer goes so far as punching the window of the car.

Bassa and Borràs left Alcalá-Meco a few minutes before four o’clock, and Turull, Rull, Romeva and Mundó left Estremera at around half past six.

Cabinet counsellors Dolors Bassa and Meritxell Borràs have left jail after spending almost a month imprisoned, as soon as their bail bonds of one hundred thousand euros each were deposited. Upon leaving the two government cabinet members were received by relatives, and colleagues from the Republican Left and the European Democratic Party of Catalonia.

Jordi Cervantes never complained to the Mossos d’Esquadra about the alleged attack on his home, making the version of his story told to the press suspicious. His is the same family who reported that his 11-year-old son had been attacked by a pro-independence supporter the previous month.

Viral images of puppets wearing the logos of the pro-article 155 parties, are broken by notorious extreme-right websites and twitter accounts, pointing to a ploy by pro-unionists to tarnish the pacifist reputation of the pro-independence camp.

The Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan Police) restricted access to a group of people who were on their way to the port of Mataró to wear yellow scarves, given that the president of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy, was there to have a meeting. The leader of the Partido Popular was in the city to participate in a PP campaign event at the Hotel Atenea Port.

It has emerged that the tenant at the apartment in Balsareny, where a fire was allegedly caused by the malicious burning of a Spanish flag, is an ultra-right-waing radical, who spent the afternoon prior to the fire ringing the doorbell of the local Mayor’s house, harassing them and burning Catalan flags.