If its some sort of Jihadist plot then the EU would support Catalonia in its bid for independence and not stay on the sidelines.
John McCain and Lindsey Graham would be all in for the independence movement just they were on the Qatari backed jihadist side fighting Assad in Syria.
From his twitter today:
BBC twitter:
Spain FM: 'Many police violence pictures fake'
Saul Montes-Bradley @Debradelai Sep 29
(30) Jaume Roures makes no bones about his trotskyite ideology.
“I make money to serve my ideology” he declared to Libération in 2009.
(31) Soon after that meeting, on 6 September, a session of the Catalan Parliament approved the call to an independence referendum.
(32) Opposition parties boycotted the meeting and another party abstained.
(33) Catalonia’s own statutes require a TWO THIRDS majority for any law to change the status of Catalonia...
(34) And they did not come close, rendering the call for a referendum illegal per Catalan law.
Null and void.
(35) The Spanish Constitution is no less clear.
This whole thing is not a democratic exercise,
(36) but a coordinated effort by a committed cabal to provoke a crisis.
Done in a most UNDEMOCRATIC and, indeed, ILLEGAL fashion.
(37) To make matters more interesting, there is no census; there are no voter lists; no Electoral Commission…
just stormtroopers.
(38) Two days ago, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls hit it on the nose.
This has nothing to do with Spain or Catalonia.
(39) The independence of Catalonia, he said, “means in a certain way the end of what Europe is,”
(40) Three weeks ago we got further hints of who’s behind this attempt at the balkanization of Spain and, as PM Valls stated, Europe.