Catalans Deeply Divided a Year After Contentious Independence Referendum

With pro-independence protests erupting in Catalonia to mark the anniversary of the events in October 2017, the Spain is still grappling for a long-lasting solution to the unrests.

Pro-independence supporters hold ballot boxes symbolic of the Oct. 1, 2017 Catalonia independence referendum, in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 1, 2018. Anna Llado/Special to The Epoch Times

BARCELONA—It’s been a year since secessionists in the coastal region of Catalonia held what the Constitutional Court of Spain referred to as an illegal referendum to seek independence.

With pro-independence protests erupting in the region to mark the anniversary of the events of October 2017, the country is still grappling for a long-lasting solution to the unrest.