The reaction of peaceful protest against the police macro-operation launched today by the State to try to stop the 1-O has not stopped growing throughout the day. What began in the morning as a spontaneous gathering of dozens and, later, hundreds of people in front of the headquarters of the Department of Economy, has become this afternoon a massive protest of 40,000, according to the count of the Urban Guard, at the intersection of Gran Via with Rambla de Catalunya, very close to the department.

He assures that he felt no pain while receiving violent baton blows all over his body, nor when the Civil Guard agents threw him to the ground and dragged him a few meters, nor when they deliberately stepped on him with their boots, nor when, without the strength to get up, he turned white and suffocated. Josep Maria Nadal, former rector of the University of Girona, professor and chair of Catalan philology, explains that he felt the pain just as the Civil Guards were leaving the polling station in Aiguaviva with shouts of “ ¡Viva España! ” He still has marks on his body from October 1st, but it is not the physical pain he suffered that hurts him the most, but the moral damage caused by the voices that deny or justify the brutal police charges of that day, such as that of the writer Javier Cercas, former professor at the UdG.