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A lot of these polling stations that the police are smashing up are schools and other local authority buildings.
The Spanish state sending a pretty strong message about how much respect they have for Catalan civic life.
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yeah, it just seems so extraordinary from over here.
Since Friday, thousands of separatist supporters had occupied schools and other buildings designated as polling stations in order to keep them open.
Many of those inside were parents and their children, who remained in the buildings after the end of lessons on Friday and bedded down in sleeping bags on gym mats.
In some areas, farmers positioned tractors on roads and in front of polling station doors, and school gates were taken away to make it harder for the authorities to seal buildings off.
hoefla
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41457238