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Catalonia referendum: Spanish police target Catalan government
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AKIPRESS.COM - Spain's Guardia Civil police have detained a senior Catalan official and raided regional government ministries involved in organising a banned independence vote, BBC reported.

Tensions were already high before the arrest of Josep Maria Jové, secretary-general of the Catalan vice presidency.

Catalan leaders are defying a court order to halt the vote, condemned by the Madrid government as illegal.

One official called for peaceful resistance to protect the buildings.

"The time has come - let's resist peacefully; let's come out and defend our institutions," the president of the Catalan National Assembly, Jordi Sánchez, tweeted.

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